The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (London: Oxford University Press, 1916).The whole volume in one large file in standard HTML and facs. PDF.

The plays are also available in an "enhanced HTML" format with a "citation tool" so selected passages can be cited in papers. Because of the size of the book the plays have been split into three parts following the practice of the First Folio edition:

• The Comedies - in enhanced HTML and facs. PDF
• The Histories - in enhanced HTML and facs. PDF
• The Tragedies - in enhanced HTML and facs. PDF

Or each play and poem as separate smaller files in HTML:

• Poems: Venus and Adonis (1593); The Rape of Lucrece (1594); Sonnets (1609); A Lovers Complaint (1609); The Passionate Pilgrim (1598); Sonnets to Music; The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601).
• The Plays: Comedies: The Tempest (1611-12), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594-95), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600-01), Measure for Measure (1604-05), The Comedy of Errours (c. 1594), Much adoo about Nothing (1598-99), Loves Labour Lost (1594-95), Midsommer Nights Dreame (c. 1595), The Merchant of Venice (1596-97), As you Like it (c. 1599), The Taming of the Shrew (1593-94), All is well, that Ends well (c. 1606), Twelfe-Night, or what you will (1602), The Winters Tale (1610-11), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c.1607)
• Histories: King John (c. 1595), King Richard the second (1595-96), King Henry the fourth (part 1) (1598), King Henry the fourth Part 2) (1600), King Henry the Fift (1599), King Henry the Sixt (Part 1) (c. 1590), King Henry the Sixt (Part 2) (c. 1590), King Henry the Sixt Part 3) (c. 1592), King Richard the Third (c. 1593), King Henry the Eight (c. 1613)
• Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida (1609), Coriolanus (c. 1605), Titus Andronicus (1594), Romeo and Juliet (1597), Timon of Athens (c. 1607), Julius Caesar (1599), Macbeth (c. 1603), Hamlet (1602), King Lear (1606), Othello (c. 1603), Anthony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Cymbeline (c. 1609).

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. (London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623).

The collection known as the "First Folio" was edited by friends of Shakespeare after his death and were organised into three groups: Comedies (14), Histories (10), and Tragedies (12); a "Second Folio" edition appeared in 1632 [facs. PDF] .

The text can be viewed in the following formats:

• an "enhanced HTML" format with a "citation tool" so selected passages can be cited in papers.
• in standard [HTML]
• a "parallel edition" with page images of the original on the left and HTML on the right.
• for the eBook formats this very large file has been split into three parts:
  • The Comedies: HTML, PDF, and ePub
  • The Histories: HTML, PDF, and ePub
  • The Tragedies: HTML, PDF, and ePub

Editor's Note: There are many facsimile copies of the First Folio online but few are ideal. Many have been poorly scanned with missing, skewed, faint, or distorted pages. I have tried to compile a "composite" PDF with the most readable pages from the best copies I have been able to find. See also

• the American Library of Congress edition (2 pages facing; colour) [facs. PDF here and their website] and
• the German Württembergische Landesbibliothek edition (clour, single page) [facs. PDF here and their website].
• the 1902 Oxford edition: Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. With Introduction and Census of Copies by Sidney Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902). Black and white facs. PDF; colour version facs. PDF.

SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Neuer before Imprinted. At London, By G. Eld for T.T and are to be solde by William Aspley. 1609.

The version we have here is a facsimile reprint of the original by Sidney Lee with the latter's introduction and notes: Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition 1609. From the Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library. With Introduction and Bibliography by Sidney Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905).

• a black and white facs. PDF
• a colour facs, PDF

SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Neuer before Imprinted. At London, By G. Eld for T.T and are to be solde by William Aspley. 1609.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint. With an Introduction by W.H. Hadow (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907).

• in HTML and facs. PDF
• there is also a parallel edition based on Hadow's version of the Sonnets, with page images on the left and HTML text on the right