The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Project Gutenberg eBook #100. The definitive primary source for this wiki, containing Shakespeare's complete dramatic and poetic output.

Bibliographic Details

• Author: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• Publisher: Project Gutenberg
• eBook ID: #100
• Release date: January 1, 1994 (most recently updated August 24, 2025)
• File: raw/pg100.txt
• Size: 196,398 lines

Contents

The file contains, in the following order:

Plays (37 canonical + 1 collaborative)

1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. Antony and Cleopatra
3. As You Like It
4. The Comedy of Errors
5. Coriolanus
6. Cymbeline
7. Hamlet
8. Henry IV, Part 1
9. Henry IV, Part 2
10. Henry V
11. Henry VI, Part 1
12. Henry VI, Part 2
13. Henry VI, Part 3
14. Henry VIII
15. King John
16. Julius Caesar
17. King Lear
18. Love's Labour's Lost
19. Macbeth
20. Measure for Measure
21. The Merchant of Venice
22. The Merry Wives of Windsor
23. A Midsummer Night's Dream
24. Much Ado About Nothing
25. Othello
26. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
27. Richard II
28. Richard III
29. Romeo and Juliet
30. The Taming of the Shrew
31. The Tempest
32. Timon of Athens
33. Titus Andronicus
34. Troilus and Cressida
35. Twelfth Night
36. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
37. The Two Noble Kinsmen
38. The Winter's Tale

Poetry

• The Sonnets (154 sonnets)
• A Lover's Complaint
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Rape of Lucrece
• Venus and Adonis

Format Notes

Each play opens with a table of contents listing acts and scenes, followed by a "Dramatis Personæ" section, then the play text. The sonnets appear first in the file (lines 87 ff.) before the plays.

Key Takeaways

• The complete canon spans from early comedies (~1589) to late romances (~1614).
• The works represent all major genres Shakespeare worked in: comedy, tragedy, history, romance.
• The file uses original spelling conventions in some places but is largely modernized.