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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head><script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=HxkREWBo" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script> <script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden"};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> __wm.init("https://web.archive.org/web"); __wm.wombat("http://the-tech.mit.edu:80/Shakespeare/","20040401205335","https://web.archive.org/","web","/_static/", "1080852815"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=S1zqJCYt" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" />  <title>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/web/20040401205335cs_/http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/shake.css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <table width="100%" bgcolor="#CCF6F6"> <tr><td class="play" align="center">The Complete Works of William Shakespeare </table> <blockquote> <img src="/web/20040401205335im_/http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/shake.gif" vspace="20" hspace="10" height="282" width="222" align="left"> <blockquote>Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. </blockquote> <p><b>Announcement:</b> The restoration of the site following a disk failure has been delayed. The text of the plays is available now. The poetry and other services, including the search engine and forums, will return shortly. (Nov. 13, 2000) <p>For other Shakespeare resources, visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040401205335/http://daphne.palomar.edu/Shakespeare/">Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet</a> Web site. <p>The original electronic source for this server is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040401205335/ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/data/shakespeare/">Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare,</a> which is freely available online. The HTML versions of the plays provided here are placed in the public domain. <p><a href="news.html">Older news items</a> </blockquote> <br clear="all"> <p> <table border cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr align="CENTER"> <td> <h2> Comedy</h2> </td> <td> <h2> History</h2> </td> <td> <h2> Tragedy</h2> </td> <td> <h2> Poetry</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="BASELINE" nowrap> <a href="allswell/index.html"> All's Well That Ends Well</a> <br><a href="asyoulikeit/index.html"> As You Like It</a> <br><a href="comedy_errors/index.html"> The Comedy of Errors</a> <br><a href="cymbeline/index.html">Cymbeline</a> <br><a href="lll/index.html">Love's Labours Lost</a> <br><a href="measure/index.html">Measure for Measure</a> <br><a href="merry_wives/index.html">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a> <br><a href="merchant/index.html">The Merchant of Venice</a> <br><a href="midsummer/index.html">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a> <br><a href="much_ado/index.html">Much Ado About Nothing</a> <br><a href="pericles/index.html">Pericles, Prince of Tyre</a> <br><a href="taming_shrew/index.html">Taming of the Shrew</a> <br><a href="tempest/index.html">The Tempest</a> <br><a href="troilus_cressida/index.html">Troilus and Cressida</a> <br><a href="twelfth_night/index.html">Twelfth Night</a> <br><a href="two_gentlemen/index.html">Two Gentlemen of Verona</a> <br><a href="winters_tale/index.html">Winter's Tale</a> </td> <td valign="BASELINE"> <a href="1henryiv/index.html">Henry IV, part 1</a> <br><a href="2henryiv/index.html">Henry IV, part 2</a> <br><a href="henryv/index.html">Henry V</a> <br><a href="1henryvi/index.html">Henry VI, part 1</a> <br><a href="2henryvi/index.html">Henry VI, part 2</a> <br><a href="3henryvi/index.html">Henry VI, part 3</a> <br><a href="henryviii/index.html">Henry VIII</a> <br><a href="john/index.html">King John</a> <br><a href="richardii/index.html">Richard II</a> <br><a href="richardiii/index.html">Richard III</a></td> <td valign="BASELINE"> <a href="cleopatra/index.html">Antony and Cleopatra</a> <br><a href="coriolanus/index.html">Coriolanus</a> <br><a href="hamlet/index.html">Hamlet</a> <br><a href="julius_caesar/index.html">Julius Caesar</a> <br><a href="lear/index.html">King Lear</a> <br><a href="macbeth/index.html">Macbeth</a> <br><a href="othello/index.html">Othello</a> <br><a href="romeo_juliet/index.html">Romeo and Juliet</a> <br><a href="timon/index.html">Timon of Athens</a> <br><a href="titus/index.html">Titus Andronicus</a></td> <td valign="BASELINE"> <em a href="Poetry/sonnets.html"> The Sonnets</a> <br><em a href="Poetry/LoversComplaint.html"> A Lover's Complaint</a> <br><em a href="Poetry/RapeOfLucrece.html"> The Rape of Lucrece</a> <br><em a href="Poetry/VenusAndAdonis.html"> Venus and Adonis</a> <br><em a href="Poetry/elegy.html"> Funeral Elegy by W.S.</a></td> </tr> </table></center> <hr> <table width="100%" bgcolor="#CCF6F6"> <tr><td align="center" class="nav">Created by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040401205335/http://www.python.org/~jeremy/">Jeremy Hylton</a>, <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> <tr><td align="center" class="nav">Operated by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040401205335/http://www-tech.mit.edu/">The Tech</a>, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper </table> </body> </html>