William Shakespeare

 

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    William Shakespeare Biography and see the Shakespeare Sonnets, download Hamlet, and much more.

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets
    Shakepeare's Sonnets. If you love shakespeare's sonnets, you can read them all here.

    • Sonnet 1
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 1. From fairest creatures we desire increase.

    • Sonnet 2
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 2. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow.

    • Sonnet 3
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 3. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest.

    • Sonnet 4
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 4. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend.

    • Sonnet 5
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 5. Those hours, that with gentle work did frame.

    • Sonnet 6
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 6. Then let not winter's ragged hand deface.

    • Sonnet 7
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 7. Lo! in the orient when the gracious light.

    • Sonnet 8
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 8. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

    • Sonnet 9
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 9. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye.

    • Sonnet 10
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 10. For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any.

    • Sonnet 11
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 11. As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest.

    • Sonnet 12
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 12. When I do count the clock that tells the time.

    • Sonnet 13
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 13. O! that you were your self; but, love, you are.

    • Sonnet 14
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 14. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck.

    • Sonnet 15
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 15. When I consider every thing that grows.

    • Sonnet 16
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 16. But wherefore do not you a mightier way.

    • Sonnet 17
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 17. Who will believe my verse in time to come.

    • Sonnet 18
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

    • Sonnet 19
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 19. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws.

    • Sonnet 20
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 20. A woman's face with nature's own hand painted.

    • Sonnet 21
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 21. So is it not with me as with that Muse.

    • Sonnet 22
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 22. My glass shall not persuade me I am old.

    • Sonnet 23
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 23. As an unperfect actor on the stage.

    • Sonnet 24
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 24. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steel'd.

    • Sonnet 25
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 25. Let those who are in favour with their stars.

    • Sonnet 26
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 26. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage.

    • Sonnet 27
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 27. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed.

    • Sonnet 28
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 28. How can I then return in happy plight.

    • Sonnet 29
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes.

    • Sonnet 30
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 30. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought.

    • Sonnet 31
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 31. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts.

    • Sonnet 32
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 32. If thou survive my well-contented day.

    • Sonnet 33
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 33. Full many a glorious morning have I seen.

    • Sonnet 34
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 34. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day.

    • Sonnet 35
      Shakespeare Sonnet 35. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

    • Sonnet 36
      Shakepeare's Sonnet 36. Let me confess that we two must be twain.

    • Sonnet 37
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 37. As a decrepit father takes delight.

    • Sonnet 38
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 38. How can my muse want subject to invent.

    • Sonnet 39
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 39. O! how thy worth with manners may I sing.

    • Sonnet 40
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 40. Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all.

    • Sonnet 41
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 41. Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits.

    • Sonnet 42
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 42. That thou hast her it is not all my grief.

    • Sonnet 43
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 43. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see.

    • Sonnet 44
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 44. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought.

    • Sonnet 45
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 45. The other two, slight air, and purging fire.

    • Sonnet 46
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 46. Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war.

    • Sonnet 47
      Shakepeare's Sonnet 47. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took.

    • Sonnet 48
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 48. How careful was I when I took my way.

    • Sonnet 49
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 49. Against that time, if ever that time come.

    • Sonnet 50
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 50. How heavy do I journey on the way.

    • Sonnet 51
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 51. Thus can my love excuse the slow offence.

    • Sonnet 52
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 52. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key.

    • Sonnet 53
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 53. What is your substance, whereof are you made.

    • Sonnet 54
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 54. O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem.

    • Sonnet 55
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 55. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments.

    • Sonnet 56
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 56. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said.

    • Sonnet 57
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 57. Being your slave what should I do but tend.

    • Sonnet 58
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 58. That god forbid, that made me first your slave.

    • Sonnet 59
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 59. If there be nothing new, but that which is.

    • Sonnet 60
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 60. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore.

    • Sonnet 61
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 61. Is it thy will, thy image should keep open.

    • Sonnet 62
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 62. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye.

    • Sonnet 63
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 63. Against my love shall be, as I am now.

    • Sonnet 64
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 64. When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced.

    • Sonnet 65
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 65. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea.

    • Sonnet 66
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 66. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

    • Sonnet 67
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 67. Ah! wherefore with infection should he live.

    • Sonnet 68
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 68. Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

    • Sonnet 69
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 69. Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view.

    • Sonnet 70
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 70. That thou are blamed shall not be thy defect.

    • Sonnet 71
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 71. No longer mourn for me when I am dead.

    • Sonnet 72
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 72. O, lest the world should task you to recite.

    • Sonnet 73
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. That time of year thou mayst in me behold.

    • Sonnet 74
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 74. But be contented when that fell arrest.

    • Sonnet 75
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 75. So are you to my thoughts as food to life.

    • Sonnet 76
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 76. Why is my verse so barren of new pride.

    • Sonnet 77
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 77. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear.

    • Sonnet 78
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 78. So oft have I invoked thee for my muse.

    • Sonnet 79
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 79. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid.

    • Sonnet 80
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 80. O, how I faint when I of you do write.

    • Sonnet 81
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 81. Or I shall live your epitaph to make.

    • Sonnet 82
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 82. I grant thou wert not married to my muse.

    • Sonnet 83
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 83. I never saw that you did painting need.

    • Sonnet 84
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 84. Who is it that says most which can say more.

    • Sonnet 85
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 85. My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still.

    • Sonnet 86
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 86. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse.

    • Sonnet 87
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 87. Farewell thou art too dear for my possessing.

    • Sonnet 88
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 88. When thou shalt be disposed to set me light.

    • Sonnet 89
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 89. Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault.

    • Sonnet 90
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 90. Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.

    • Sonnet 91
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 91. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill.

    • Sonnet 92
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 92. But do thy worst to steal thyself away.

    • Sonnet 93
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 93. So shall I live supposing thou art true.

    • Sonnet 94
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 94. They that have power to hurt and will do none.

    • Sonnet 95
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 95. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame.

    • Sonnet 96
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 96. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness.

    • Sonnet 97
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 97. How like a winter hath my absence been.

    • Sonnet 98
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 98. From you have I been absent in the spring.

    • Sonnet 99
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 99. The forward violet thus did I chide.

    • Sonnet 100
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 100. Where art thou, muse, that thou forget'st so long.

    • Sonnet 101
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 101. O truant muse, what shall be thy amends.

    • Sonnet 102
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 102. My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming.

    • Sonnet 103
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 103. Alack, what poverty my muse brings forth.

    • Sonnet 104
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 104. To me, fair friend, you never can be old.

    • Sonnet 105
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 105. Let not my love be called idolatry.

    • Sonnet 106
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 106. When in the chronicle of wasted time.

    • Sonnet 107
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 107. Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul.

    • Sonnet 108
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 108. What's in the brain that ink may character.

    • Sonnet 109
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 109. O never say that I was false of heart.

    • Sonnet 110
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 110. Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there.

    • Sonnet 111
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 111. O, for my sake do you with fortune chide.

    • Sonnet 112
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 112. Your love and pity doth th' impression fill.

    • Sonnet 113
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 113. Since I left you mine eye is in my mind.

    • Sonnet 114
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 114. Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you.

    • Sonnet 115
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 115. Those lines that I before have writ do lie.

    • Sonnet 116
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. Let me not to the marriage of true minds.

    • Sonnet 117
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 117. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all.

    • Sonnet 118
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 118. Like as, to make our appetites more keen.

    • Sonnet 119
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 119. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears.

    • Sonnet 120
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 120. That you were once unkind befriends me now.

    • Sonnet 121
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 121. 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed.

    • Sonnet 122
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 122. Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain.

    • Sonnet 123
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 123. No, time, thou shalt not boast that I do change!

    • Sonnet 124
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 124. If my dear love were but the child of state.

    • Sonnet 125
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 125. Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy.

    • Sonnet 126
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 126. O thou my lovely boy, who in thy power.

    • Sonnet 127
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 127. In the old age black was not counted fair.

    • Sonnet 128
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 128. How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st.

    • Sonnet 129
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 129. Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

    • Sonnet 130
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.

    • Sonnet 131
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 131. Thou art as tyrannous so as thou art.

    • Sonnet 132
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 132. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me.

    • Sonnet 133
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 133. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan.

    • Sonnet 134
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 134. So, now I have confessed that he is thine.

    • Sonnet 135
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 135. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will.

    • Sonnet 136
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 136. If thy soul check thee that I come so near.

    • Sonnet 137
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 137. Thou blind fool love, what dost thou to mine eyes.

    • Sonnet 138
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 138. When my love swears that she is made of truth.

    • Sonnet 139
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 139. O, call not me to justify the wrong.

    • Sonnet 140
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 140. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press.

    • Sonnet 141
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 141. In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes.

    • Sonnet 142
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 142. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate.

    • Sonnet 143
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 143. Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch.

    • Sonnet 144
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 144. Two loves I have, of comfort and despair.

    • Sonnet 145
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 145. Those lips that love's own hand did make.

    • Sonnet 146
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 146. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth.

    • Sonnet 147
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 147. My love is as a fever, longing still.

    • Sonnet 148
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 148. O me! What eyes hath love put in my head.

    • Sonnet 149
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 149. Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not.

    • Sonnet 150
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 150. O, from what power hast thou this powerful might.

    • Sonnet 151
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 151. Love is too young to know what conscience is.

    • Sonnet 152
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 152. In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn.

    • Sonnet 153
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 153. Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep.

    • Sonnet 154
      Shakespeare's Sonnet 154. The little love-god lying once asleep.

  • Audiobooks
    Here you will find audiobooks on the works of william shakespeare. You will find Hamlet, The Sonnets, King Lear, and much more.

    • As You Like It
      A quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown.

    • Coriolanus
      Samuel West and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's great tragedy of power and pride.

    • Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings
      In this remarkable anthology of historical recordings are many of the great artists of the past. Early cylinder recordings of Sir Henry Irving preserve the voice and character of the greatest actor...

    • Great Moments in History: "Shakespeare at the Globe"
      The Bard gets a jolly lesson in ye olde show biz.

    • Hamlet
      The first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies.

    • Henry IV - Part One
      Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.

    • Julius Caesar
      Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most popular and polished works.

    • King Lear
      The story of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns the value of self-knowledge.

    • King Richard III
      Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare's strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks...

    • Life of Shakespeare, A
      The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...

    • Macbeth
      By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601),...

    • Midsummer Night's Dream, A
      Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.

    • Much Ado About Nothing
      A full-cast performance of one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature.

    • Richard II
      Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when...

    • Romeo & Juliet
      Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly...

    • Sonnets, The
      Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of May', or 'remembrance of things past',or 'the marriage of true minds'. For centuries...

    • Tempest, The
      Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.

    • Winter's Tale, The
      The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on...