About
Shakespeare is hard. Crossed loyalties, century-old grammar, a dozen characters who all know each other before the curtain even rises. This site is built to make the plays easier to follow — not by replacing the text, but by showing it.
Every play maps its cast and how they connect — family, allies, foes, actions, events. Tap a character to read their thread of the story.
What you get
Each play opens to a force-directed graph of its cast. Edges are colour-coded by the kind of relationship, so the shape of the story is legible before you read a line.
Original verse on one side, plain modern English on the other. Read either, switch at any moment, or follow both at once.
Whole play, act, scene, speech. Zoom out for orientation, zoom in for the moment that matters. No spoilers further than you've read.
How it's built
Source texts are public-domain editions. Translations and summaries are AI-generated and labeled as such — every block carries a small provenance tag so you can see what was machine-written and where the original came from.
Everything is precomputed and bundled. The site works offline once loaded, and there's no account, no tracking, no paywall — just the plays.