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Sources, attribution, and licenses.
Source texts
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — Project Gutenberg eBook #100 — Public Domain. Line text for every bundled play.
Images
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Wikimedia Commons — P_culture.svg by Wikimedia Commons contributors — CC BY-SA 3.0 / GFDL (dual). Site logo, browser favicon, and app icon (web + iOS + Android). Share-alike: derivatives of this mark must release under the same license.
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Othello and Desdemona by Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1820–1900), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Othello banner.
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Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster by W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. (1884), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Othello cover.
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Thomas Keene in Macbeth, 1884 poster, via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Macbeth cover.
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Macbeth erblickt den Geist des ermordeten Banquo (Liebigbilder, Serie 852) Anonymous (1912), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Macbeth banner.
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Ophelia by Henrietta Rae (1890), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Hamlet banner.
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Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet by W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. of Cleveland, Ohio (circa 1884), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Hamlet cover.
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The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton (1849), Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. A Midsummer Night’s Dream banner.
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Hermia and Lysander, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by John Simmons (1870), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. A Midsummer Night’s Dream cover.
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A Scene from Act I, Scene 2 of The Tempest by William Hogarth (c. 1735), National Trust / Nostell Priory, via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. The Tempest banner.
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Miranda — The Tempest by John William Waterhouse (1916), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. The Tempest cover.
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The Death of Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1867), Walters Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Julius Caesar banner.
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Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven after Richard Westall (1802), Boydell Shakespeare Gallery via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Julius Caesar cover.
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Julius Caesar — Project Gutenberg eBook #1522 by William Shakespeare, prepared by the PG Shakespeare Team — Public Domain. Source text for the Julius Caesar fixture.
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Scene from Twelfth Night — Malvolio and the Countess after George Stuart Newton (engraving, 19th century), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Twelfth Night banner.
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Olivia, from Shakespeare’s Heroines (19th-century engraving), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Twelfth Night cover.
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Much Ado About Nothing by Alfred W. Elmore (1846), via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. Much Ado About Nothing banner.
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Hero, Ursula and Beatrice (Act 3, Scene 1) by Jean-Pierre Simon after William Peters (Boydell Shakespeare series), The Met Museum, via Wikimedia Commons — CC0. Much Ado About Nothing cover.
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Cleopatra - John William Waterhouse by John William Waterhouse (1888), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Antony and Cleopatra banner.
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-0035 Altes Museum Portrait Kleopatra VII anagoria by Anagoria (30-40 BC), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Antony and Cleopatra cover.
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Francis Hayman (1708-1776) - The Wrestling Scene from ‘As You Like It’ - N06206 - National Gallery by Francis Hayman (between 1740 and 1742), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. As You Like It banner.
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John Collier - In the Forest of Arden by John Collier (1892), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. As You Like It cover.
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ComedyErrors1 by McLoughlin Brothers, 1890. (1890), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Comedy of Errors banner.
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Robson Crane Comedy of Errors by Creator(s): Metropolitan Litho. Studio. (Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 1879.), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Comedy of Errors cover.
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Coriolanus, RP-P-OB-5365 by Rijksmuseum (1785), via Wikimedia Commons — CC0. Coriolanus banner.
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Jan Erasmus Quellinus (Attr.) - Volumnia before Coriolanus by Attributed to Jan Erasmus Quellinus (circa 1700), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Coriolanus cover.
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Softly Unloosening the Bracelet by Louis Rhead (1918), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Cymbeline banner.
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Faed postumus and imogen by John Faed (circa 1865), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Cymbeline cover.
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‘Henry IV’, Part I, Act I, Scene 3, Hotspur and the Fop Samuel John Egbert Jones (1797–1861) Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Samuel John Egbert Jones (19 February 2016, 00:54:29), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry IV, Part 1 banner.
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1587 printing of Holinshed’s Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed (1587), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry IV, Part 1 cover.
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Falstaff choosing his recruits (Cawse, 1818) by John Cawse (1818), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry IV, Part 2 banner.
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The Palace at Westminster, King Henry and the Prince of Wales (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 4) first published 1795, reissued 1852 Robert Thew, after Josiah Boydell by Robert Thew, after Josiah Boydell (2016-03-28 09:49:12), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry IV, Part 2 cover.
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1587 printing of Holinshed’s Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed (1587), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry V banner.
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1587 printing of Holinshed’s Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed (1587), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry V cover.
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1587 printing of Holinshed’s Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed (1587), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry VI, Part 1 banner.
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1587 printing of Holinshed’s Chronicles by Raphael Holinshed (1587), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Henry VI, Part 1 cover.
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King Henry VI Part II Lithograph by Unknown authorUnknown author (2018-12-25 15:06:29), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VI, Part 2 banner.
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Edwin Austin Abbey - King Henry VI, Part II, “Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.” (Act III, Scene ii) - 1937.1187 - Yale University Art Gallery by Edwin Austin Abbey (1891), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VI, Part 2 cover.
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The Flight of Henry VI from Towton (Windus) by William Lindsay Windus (1822–1907) (between circa 1860 and circa 70), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VI, Part 3 banner.
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‘The Murder of Rutland by Lord Clifford’ by Charles Robert Leslie, 1815 by Charles Robert Leslie (1815), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VI, Part 3 cover.
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Harlow The Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine by George Henry Harlow (1817), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VIII banner.
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After Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Henry VIII - Google Art Project by Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1540), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Henry VIII cover.
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Shakespeare’s King John at Drury Lane Theatre by Uncredited (1865-12-09), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. King John banner.
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Nast drawing of King John by Thomas Nast (19th century), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. King John cover.
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Cordelia’s Portion by Ford Madox Brown (1866), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. King Lear banner.
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Edwin Forrest as King Lear-Act IV-Scene VI - gravure Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. LCCN98517305 by Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress (1887), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. King Lear cover.
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First-page-first-folio-love’s-labors-lost by William Shakespeare, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount (printers) (1623), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Love’s Labour’s Lost banner.
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“Love’s Labour’s Lost”, Act IV, Scene 3 by Thomas Stothard (circa 1800), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Love’s Labour’s Lost cover.
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Charles Buchel Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare s Shylock by Karl August Büchel (1914), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Merchant of Venice banner.
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Charles Buchel Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare s Shylock by Karl August Büchel (1914), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Merchant of Venice cover.
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Ettore Tito -The Production of Verdi’s Falstaff at Milan - Falstaff Concealed in the Buck-Basket in Ford’s House by Ettore Tito / Adam Cuerden (18 February 1893), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Merry Wives of Windsor banner.
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Henry Fuseli - Falstaff im Wäschekorb - 2541 - Kunsthaus Zürich by Henry Fuseli (1792), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Merry Wives of Windsor cover.
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The Entry of Richard and Bolingbroke into London (from William Shakespeare’s ‘Richard II’, Act V, Scene 2) James Northcote (1746–1831) Royal Albert Memorial Museum by James Northcote (1746–1831), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Richard II banner.
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Richard II King of England by Anonymous (mid-1390s), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Richard II cover.
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The East Gate, Exeter and the Visit of King Richard III, 1483 by George Townsend (1885), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Richard III banner.
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“III Riçard” tamaşası (Azərbaycan Dövlət Gənc Tamaşaçılar Teatrının tamaşası, 31 oktyabr 2015-ci il) by Babək Akifoğlu (2015-10-31 15:16:20), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-4.0. Richard III cover.
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Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 5 (148559969) by William Miller (1792), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Romeo and Juliet banner.
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Romeo and juliet brown by Ford Madox Brown (between 1869 and 1870), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Romeo and Juliet cover.
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Taming of the shrew by Augustus Egg, via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Taming of the Shrew banner.
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Taming of the shrew by Augustus Egg, via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Taming of the Shrew cover.
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Timon of Athens Steward by Cwoyte (2013-01-16 21:49:30), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-SA-3.0. Timon of Athens banner.
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Alcibiades (fragment of ‘Timon of Athens’) John Opie (1761–1807) Bolton Museum and Art Gallery by John Opie (22 February 2016, 05:47:19), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Timon of Athens cover.
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First Page of Titus Andronicus, 1600 by The University of Edinburgh Heritage Collection (2007-03-27), via Wikimedia Commons — CC-BY-3.0. Titus Andronicus banner.
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Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus by From a daguerreotype by William Paine of Islington. Printed by The London Printing and Publishing Company. (circa 1852), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. Titus Andronicus cover.
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Scene from (Kauffmann) by Angelica Kauffmann (1789), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Two Gentlemen of Verona banner.
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Scene from (Kauffmann) by Angelica Kauffmann (1789), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Two Gentlemen of Verona cover.
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Dirge of Three Queens by Edwin Austin Abbey (circa 1895), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Two Noble Kinsmen banner.
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Dirge of Three Queens by Edwin Austin Abbey (circa 1895), via Wikimedia Commons — PD. The Two Noble Kinsmen cover.
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Scene from ‘The Winter’s Tale’ (Act IV, Scene 4) by Augustus Leopold Egg (mid-19th century), Guildhall Art Gallery, via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. The Winter’s Tale banner.
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Florizel and Perdita — The Winter’s Tale by Charles Robert Leslie (19th century), The Met Museum, via Wikimedia Commons — Public Domain. The Winter’s Tale cover.
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