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Call for Volunteers to Help Convert Plays

As PlayShakespeare.com rounds out another calendar year of being the premiere free Shakespeare resource, we're already looking forward to version 3 of our Web site. One of the things that is going to greatly improve our play texts and allow us to...

Characters now added to scene listings

Have you been wanting a breakdown of all the characters in each scene? We've now added a list of characters in each scene to the scene listings. You don't have to search through play texts for all the characters because we've done it for you! Just...

Coming Soon: Customized searching

Our extensive searching tool is under development and will soon reach a beta state. With this great new tool, you'll be able to search across all the plays, the entire site, individual plays, and more!

Coming Soon: Full texts on a single page for registered users

Registered users can soon get the full texts on a single page instead of having to click scene by scene. More extras to come for registered users so become a member of PlayShakespeare.com. Just click the Register button in the left menu. It's...

FALSTAFF AWARDS 2007: Winners Announced

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2007. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the...

FALSTAFF AWARDS 2008: Winners Announced

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2008. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the...

First Folio Editions Added

In addition to the quality play texts on PlayShakespeare.com, we've now added the original First Folio editions of Shakespeare's plays. These original spelling editions give Shakespeare students and theatre professionals an excellent basis for...

Founder Ron Severdia talks about PlayShakespeare on CNN

Founder Ron Severdia was invited by Jack Hanson to discuss PlayShakespeare.com on Comcast's Newsmakers for CNN.

Julian López-Morillas launches first blog

To launch our new free blog service for Shakespeareans, Shakespeare guru Julian...

Julian López-Morillas launches first blog

To launch our new free blog service for Shakespeareans, Shakespeare guru Julian...

New customized searching now active

The PlayShakespeare.com development team has been working on hard on giving our users the best of functionality. Our latest improvement is our new search feature. Previously, users were only able to search our site as a whole or search the forum...

New feature: Custom your play texts with a resizer

Having trouble reading the play texts on your tiny computer screen? Want to fit more text on the screen to minimize scrolling? PlayShakespeare.com has just added a text resizer on all play text pages and character pages. With this handle new tool you...

New! Document repository for registered users!

Looking for Shakespeare's plays in a foreign language? Looking for that obscure piece of apocrypha? Do you want to publish your own critical essay online for others to download? Look no further than the new PlayShakespeare.com Document Repository....

Noted Shakespearean Egan Takes over The Oxfordian

Recently, Dr. Michael Egan, noted Shakespearean and author of The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One:...

Now Announcing New Features, eBook Partnership and a Free Virtual Classroom for Educators

Comprehensive PlayShakespeare.com Web Site Announces New Features Shakespeare site adds iPhone/iPod compatibility, resizer for visually impaired and private site sections for classrooms The comprehensive free Web site,...

Now live: Reviews of performances, interviews and more!

As PlayShakespeare.com prepares for an official launch, we've added a new aspect to our activities called "PlayShakespeare Reviews" where we review Shakespearean performances, DVDs, and literature. We'll also be publishing feature...

NOW ONLINE: Free Blogs for Shakespeareans

Are you a Shakespearean and you want your own blog but don't know how to set it up? Do you want to have a blog but don't want to deal with any of the technical issues? PlayShakespeare.com is now announcing free blogs for...

OSF Opens 2009 with Scrumptious Diversity

Play Shakespeare is getting ready...

PlayShakespeare.com is now official! We've been working for over a year, but we're not resting yet! There are more features and content continually being added every day to the best free resource for actors, directors, scholars, and...

PlayShakespeare now free on iPhone, iTunes

Friday marked the official launch of the Apple iPhone Store on iTunes and PlayShakespeare is now available on your iPhone and iPod. As part of our previously announced cooperation with

PlayShakespeare.com and The Shakespeare Society Join Forces

Bringing free podcasts to bard fans on iTunes, PlayShakespeare.com and Shakespeare Society’s sites PlayShakespeare.com, in addition to producing it’s own podcasts, will collaborate with

PlayShakespeare.com is now launched

New Comprehensive Shakespeare Website Features Complete, Faithful Works at No Charge Making its official launch on Shakespeare's birthday, April 23, the website

SAVE THE GLOBE: Deadline March 18th

We at PlayShakespeare.com have always been great supporters of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in performance. If you're unaware of the fact there's a proposal underway to convert an old military fort in New York to an exact replica of the Globe Theatre,...

Scheduled Maintenance on 11/19

Our host has informed us that we will be down for scheduled maintenance on November 19, 2008 at 10:00pm CST. This will be a major server upgrade and will take approximately 30-45 minutes. In that period of time our email will be unavailable for...

Shakespeare & Me puts music to the Bard's words

Musician Matthew Perifano has put music to the words of Shakespeare in a new concert called Shakespeare &...

Shakespeare on iPhone update

iPhone users can now get the newly updated Shakespeare version 1.2 from the Apple AppStore, with a plethora a new features, including...

Shakespeare Santa Cruz Receives $416,417 in Holiday Cheer

Update 12/22/2008: Shakespeare Santa...

Shakespeare XML Versions Complete. Call for Volunteers for Folio Editions.

On December 5, 2008, we began converting the complete works of Shakespeare into XML and announced a call for volunteers to assist. Today, three months...

SITE UPDATE: Upgrading for the Bard's Birthday

To celebrate the William Shakespeare's birthday in conjunction with our first year anniversary, PlayShakespeare.com is undergoing a facelift and a major upgrade. This was a multi-phase process started with our text upgrades, which were completed...

Stephen Colbert meets Stephen Greenblatt

Last night, talk show host and comedian Stephen Colbert had surprise guest Stephen Greenblatt on his show to discuss the finer merits of the works of William Shakespeare...

The Merchant of Venice: An eloquent discussion of hate, prejudice and marriage 400 years in the making

No Nude Men A One-Night All-Queer Stage Reading of The Merchant of Venice: An eloquent discussion of hate,...

The Shakespeare Society Celebrates Shakespeare's Birthday with a Marathon

In honor of Shakespeare’s 445th birthday, The Shakespeare Society, under the guidance of Artistic Director Michael Sexton, is offering the public a free (that’s right,...

The Shakespeare Society Spotlights Lynn Redgrave’s Solo Show

The Shakespeare Society will present Lynn Redgrave in Rachel and Juliet, a new solo work-in-progress, on Monday,...

UPDATE: PlayShakespeare texts improved

Over the last few months, extensive work has been done by our team to correct and improve upon our play texts. That work is now complete and online. The textual cleanup included fixing stray punctuation, minor spelling errors, and a...