The Complete Works

38 plays. Every scene annotated.

Side-by-side original text with modern translation, deep dives, and annotations on every line.

Tragedys

A prince, a ghost, and a kingdom gone wrong.

A king gives everything away and loses everything.

Ambition that eats itself.

Jealousy as a weapon wielded by someone else.

Romeo and Juliet

The most famous love story that is also a warning.

Antony and Cleopatra

Empire versus desire — and desire wins.

The most dangerous speech in Shakespeare.

A war hero who despises the people he fights for.

Timon of Athens

A man who loved humanity until humanity proved him right.

Titus Andronicus

The most violent play Shakespeare ever wrote, and it means it.

Troilus and Cressida

Love and war — and Shakespeare's most cynical play about both.

Comedys

Exile, disguise, and finding yourself in the forest.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love as a spell — and who controls the spell.

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and a great villain.

Much Ado About Nothing

Two people who argue because they can't admit they're in love.

The Merchant of Venice

A bond of flesh and the cost of mercy.

Measure for Measure

Justice, mercy, and the men who abuse both.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The most famous man in England, made to look ridiculous twice.

All's Well That Ends Well

A woman who wants more than she's allowed to want.

Love's Labour's Lost

Men who swear off women — until women arrive.

The Taming of the Shrew

The most uncomfortable comedy Shakespeare ever wrote.

The Comedy of Errors

Two sets of identical twins in the same city on the same day.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Shakespeare's earliest comedy — and his most ruthless betrayal.

Historys

Henry IV, Part 1

A stolen throne, a son who won't grow up, and a war.

Henry IV, Part 2

The cost of becoming a king — and what you have to bury.

England's greatest king — or its most dangerous one.

A king born to rule who never learned how.

The villain who wills himself into a crown.

Henry VI, Part 1

England loses France. The Wars of the Roses begin.

Henry VI, Part 2

Ambition, murder, and the collapse of a kingdom.

Henry VI, Part 3

A kingdom torn in two, and the making of a villain.

Henry's great matter — and the church that broke.

A king with no right to his crown in a world with no good choices.

Romances

Prospero's island, Caliban's rage, and the limits of magic.

The Winter's Tale

A man destroys everything he loves — and gets sixteen years to regret it.

Lost children, false accusations, and a Britain finding itself.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

A man who loses everything at sea and finds it again.

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Two friends fall in love with the same woman. Only one can have her.