Search Shakespeare

Fast search for the complete plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare (including locations and stage directions) using data derived from the PlayShakespeare project.

This app works offline!

Files are cached on access, via a service worker using Workbox.

You can also manually precache texts by clicking one of the Download all checkboxes. Texts will be removed from the cache when a checkbox is unchecked.

Link to texts and search results

As well as search, you can use the app to open texts or citations:

• shearch.me#Hamlet
• shearch.me#ham
• shearch.me#ham.3
• shearch.me#ham.3.1
• shearch.me#ham.3.1.56

You can also link to search results:

• shearch.me#brazen
• shearch.me#exit-pursued

Search options

There are several options for filtering search results:

• Text name
• Type of text (play, poem or sonnet)
• Speaker
• Speaker gender

You can also click on a word in a text to search for that word.

Privacy

Google Analytics is used to record the following:

• Basic visit data.
• Most popular search queries.
• Button tap and click events.

No additional data is sent to the server.

Feedback and feature requests

Feedback welcome!

• Make a comment or request
• File a bug

Play and poem texts

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