Open Source Shakespeare is a phenomenal resource for actors, directors, scholars, or anyone else who needs to know anything about Shakespeare’s works.
More than just a collection of the plays and sonnets, the website has the most amazing search functions and tools for examining the text.
Let’s dive further, shall we?
How about a list of every time Shakespeare uses the word “parrot”. No problem.
Need an alphabetical list of every character from every play. Here you go.
Want to compare sonnets 18 and 116 side-by-side? Easy peasy.
Want to read all of Hubert de Burgh’s lines from King John? Umm, I don’t know why’d you want to do that but…
Check out Open Source Shakespeare and mine away!
Thanks for linking to OSS. You can also see all of one character’s lines, as well as the cue lines for that character — very helpful for learning a part.
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/characters/charlines.php?CharID=Hubert&WorkID=kingjohn&cues=1