Shakespeare you can hear yourself read.
The original Shakespeare on one side. Plain modern English on the other. All 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 narrative poems — free, every line, no signup. In the app, every line is read aloud, highlighting in sync as you follow along.
Free on web · iOS & Android app · One-time purchase, no subscription
Original
Modern English
Start with one of these
Four of the most-read Shakespeare plays — each free, complete, scene-by-scene.
How the side-by-side works
Pick a play
All 37 plays — comedies, tragedies, histories — laid out as a clean library. Tap one and you're in.
Pick a scene
Every act and every scene is one tap away. The app remembers where you left off in every play, on every device.
Read your way
Original, simplified, or side-by-side — switch any time. Choose a sepia, slate, or black theme. Adjust the font size. Then read.
Hear it as you read.
Who reads with us
For class.
Read what your teacher actually assigned, with a clear modern translation right beside it. Every scene, every line — not a summary.
For pleasure.
The Shakespeare you remember from school, except this time you can keep up with every joke, threat, and turn of phrase.
For performance.
Study the original closely, with a plain-English check on the meaning of every line — ideal for actors, directors, and teachers preparing a scene.
Beyond the plays
The complete works also include 154 sonnets and 5 narrative poems.
The 154 sonnets.
From "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" to the Dark Lady. Each one with a clear plain-English paraphrase and a short note on what it's doing.
Read the sonnets →
Narrative poems · 5The five long poems.
Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint, The Phoenix and the Turtle, and The Passionate Pilgrim — full text plus study notes.
Read the poems →
All 37 plays
Browsable by genre.
Tragedies
Comedies
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As you like it
- The Comedy of Errors
- Cymbeline
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Winter's Tale