About Shakespeare
Over 25 million downloads! “It’s really great!” —Kenneth Branagh, actor and director “‘The app’s the thing.’ Hamlet was almost right. Great to see Shakespeare Pro superplaying with
Over 25 million downloads!
“It’s really great!”
—Kenneth Branagh, actor and director
“‘The app’s the thing.’ Hamlet was almost right. Great to see Shakespeare Pro superplaying with Shakespeare’s plays.”
—David Crystal, linguist and author of Shakespeare's Words
“The Shakespeare Pro app is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!”
—Ken Ludwig, Tony and Olivier Award Winning Playwright
Shakespeare Pro® includes the complete works of Shakespeare (41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including apocrypha) and search the concordance to find the exact word or phrase you’re looking for (with “relaxed” searching to find words close to your search term).
Shakespeare Pro is packed with these impressive features:
••• QUALITY TEXTS are a top priority and our team spent years compiling and editing the best references available. In the updated editions, the text is even more clear and each individual character is uniquely identified.
••• FIRST FOLIOS AND QUARTOS in original spelling show the works as they were originally published in Shakespeare’s time.
••• AN INTEGRATED GLOSSARY, based on the bestselling lexicon by David & Ben Crystal, Shakespeare’s Words™ is included. Simply tapping on a word will display its definition in context (not just a general definition).
••• ADD YOUR OWN NOTES AND SHARE THEM with your students, classmates, friends, and colleagues. Organize your notes into notebooks for use in the classroom, theatre, or just to remember key facts. Then share them via email or AirDrop.
••• POWER SEARCH THE WORKS by customizing multiple parameters like gender, genre, work, language, line form, soliloquies, and more.
••• CUSTOMIZE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE by choosing from a variety of color themes, change the font family and size, display long or short character names, jump around to different scenes, and view line numbers (*read the note below about line numbering).
••• BOOKMARK YOUR FAVORITE PARTS in addition to remembering the last page you viewed. Even copy/paste that great line.
••• DETAILED SCENE BREAKDOWNS give you an overview of the scenes within each play, their locations, and the characters present in each.
••• CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS help you better understand the actions and motivations of every character—all 1,155 of them.
••• MODERN TRANSLATIONS and lexicons to help you better understand Elizabethan English (extra add-ons).
••• GET THE FACTS by reading up on Shakespeare’s life, view data and chronology about his works, and an overview of scansion terminology or rhetoric. Character Arc Visualizers show individual character arcs or allow for comparison of multiple characters.
••• SHAKE YOUR DEVICE for Shakespeare himself to display a random memorable quote or insult. Or get a new random quote every day.
••• BROWSE THE GALLERY of famous Shakespeare portraits.
••• TEACHER CURRICULUM makes it easy for teachers to introduce students to Shakespeare's works.
••• COMPLETE APOCRYPHA is the most comprehensive breakdown of 14 plays Shakespeare may have had a hand in.
••• BARDFIND™ is the easiest way to find a Shakespeare theatre or venue anywhere in the world.
These are just a few highlights of the great things in Shakespeare Pro. If you’re a student, professor, actor, or just plain love the Bard, this must-have app ensures you have the complete works at your fingertips.
Like the new features? Having trouble and need support? Let us know at
[email protected] or at http://support.playshakespeare.com.
Apr 24, 2024
Version 9.0.6
Just another update with some improvements and new goodies. No bigs. :)
• NEW! Search by character archetype
• NEW! List of character archetypes in Study section
• NEW! Easier lookup and cross-reference for glossary, built-in dictionary
• User interface enhancements and improvements
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Shakespeare since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-26 04:47:21.
The latest version is 9.0.6 and it was updated on 2024-04-26 23:37:15. See below the changes in each version.
Shakespeare version 9.0.6
Updated At: 2024-04-24
Changes: Apr 24, 2024
Version 9.0.6
Just another update with some improvements and new goodies. No bigs. :)
• NEW! Search by character archetype
• NEW! List of character archetypes in Study section
• NEW! Easier lookup and cross-reference for glossary, built-in dictionary
• User interface enhancements and improvements
Shakespeare version 9.0.5
Updated At: 2024-01-14
Changes: Jan 14, 2024
Version 9.0.5
Enjoy this small update with a few bug fixes. :)
Shakespeare version 9.0.4
Updated At: 2023-11-16
Changes: Nov 16, 2023
Version 9.0.4
Enjoy this small update with a few new things:
• Improvements to Siri shortcuts
• Improved Apple Watch support for complications, quotes, and insults
• Many bug fixes and other improvements
Shakespeare version 9.0.3
Updated At: 2023-07-30
Changes: Jul 30, 2023
Version 9.0.3
Over 20 million downloads!
Hello Shakespeare fans! To celebrate 15 years of being the best Shakespeare app on the App Store, this is the biggest update we've done in a while—and it's a doozy.
• NEW! 14 new apocrypha plays (which Shakespeare may have had a hand in writing), including breakdowns, analysis, and detailed descriptions of each. Also included are Third Folio and quarto editions of these plays. (Add-on)
• NEW! "Shakespeare for Kids" curriculum for teachers containing 36 activities for children grades 1-5 (Add-on)
• NEW! Newly redesigned Play Breakdown sections give you an easy way to see every detail at a glance.
• NEW! Newly redesigned Dramatis Personae provides extensive details about every character.
• NEW! Customize your Home Screen all new beautiful "woodblock" style images that are AI generated
• NEW! In addition to the First Folio, the following quartos are now included for deeper study: Henry IV, Pt. 1 (Q1), Henry IV, Pt. 2 (Q1), Henry V (Q1), Love's Labour's Lost (Q1), The Merchant of Venice (Q1), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Q1), Much Ado About Nothing (Q1), Romeo & Juliet (Q2), The Taming of A Shrew (Q1), Titus Andronicus (Q2), Troilus & Cressida (Q1) (Pro)
• NEW! Easier text highlighting — just select text and tap "Highlight" (Pro)
• NEW! Customize your home screen to change the order plays to the First Folio order
• NEW! Advanced search now includes searching types of shared lines (initial, medial, final) (Pro)
• NEW! Character statistics like longest speeches and number of asides (Pro)
• NEW! Edith Nesbit's book "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" is now included
• NEW! Mary Macleod's book "The Shakespeare Story-Book" is now included
• NEW! Character Arc Visualizer now shows aggregate statistics for play genres and character genders (Pro)
• NEW! Add Quote of the Day to your lock screen
• NEW! Dictate your notes
• All editions are editable in Scriptigo, our companion script app
• All new editions are searchable (use modern spelling to search original spelling editions too!)
• Improvements to printing, search, and dark mode
• General bugs and usability improvements
There are many other updates, too many to list, including suggestions from you! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need help.
This will be the last version to support iOS version 14 so please update your devices.
Shakespeare version 9.0.2
Updated At: 2023-06-20
Changes: Jun 20, 2023
Version 9.0.2
Over 20 million downloads!
Hello Shakespeare fans! To celebrate 15 years of being the best Shakespeare app on the App Store, this is the biggest update we've done in a while—and it's a doozy.
• NEW! 14 new apocrypha plays (which Shakespeare may have had a hand in writing), including breakdowns, analysis, and detailed descriptions of each. Also included are Third Folio and quarto editions of these plays. (Add-on)
• NEW! "Shakespeare for Kids" curriculum for teachers containing 36 activities for children grades 1-5 (Add-on)
• NEW! Newly redesigned Play Breakdown sections give you an easy way to see every detail at a glance.
• NEW! Newly redesigned Dramatis Personae provides extensive details about every character.
• NEW! Customize your Home Screen all new beautiful "woodblock" style images that are AI generated
• NEW! In addition to the First Folio, the following quartos are now included for deeper study: Henry IV, Pt. 1 (Q1), Henry IV, Pt. 2 (Q1), Henry V (Q1), Love's Labour's Lost (Q1), The Merchant of Venice (Q1), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Q1), Much Ado About Nothing (Q1), Romeo & Juliet (Q2), The Taming of A Shrew (Q1), Titus Andronicus (Q2), Troilus & Cressida (Q1) (Pro)
• NEW! Easier text highlighting — just select text and tap "Highlight" (Pro)
• NEW! Customize your home screen to change the order plays to the First Folio order
• NEW! Advanced search now includes searching types of shared lines (initial, medial, final) (Pro)
• NEW! Character statistics like longest speeches and number of asides (Pro)
• NEW! Edith Nesbit's book "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" is now included
• NEW! Mary Macleod's book "The Shakespeare Story-Book" is now included
• NEW! Character Arc Visualizer now shows aggregate statistics for play genres and character genders (Pro)
• NEW! Add Quote of the Day to your lock screen
• NEW! Dictate your notes
• All editions are editable in Scriptigo, our companion script app
• All new editions are searchable (use modern spelling to search original spelling editions too!)
• Improvements to printing, search, and dark mode
• General bugs and usability improvements
There are many other updates, too many to list, including suggestions from you! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need help.
This will be the last version to support iOS version 14 so please update your devices.
Shakespeare version 9.0.1
Updated At: 2023-06-13
Changes: Jun 13, 2023
Version 9.0.1
Hello Shakespeare fans! To celebrate 15 years of being the best Shakespeare app on the App Store, this is the biggest update we've done in a while—and it's a doozy.
• NEW! 14 new apocrypha plays (which Shakespeare may have had a hand in writing), including breakdowns, analysis, and detailed descriptions of each. Also included are Third Folio and quarto editions of these plays. (Add-on)
• NEW! "Shakespeare for Kids" curriculum for teachers containing 36 activities for children grades 1-5 (Add-on)
• NEW! Newly redesigned Play Breakdown sections give you an easy way to see every detail at a glance.
• NEW! Newly redesigned Dramatis Personae provides extensive details about every character.
• NEW! Customize your Home Screen all new beautiful "woodblock" style images that are AI generated
• NEW! In addition to the First Folio, the following quartos are now included for deeper study: Henry IV, Pt. 1 (Q1), Henry IV, Pt. 2 (Q1), Henry V (Q1), Love's Labour's Lost (Q1), The Merchant of Venice (Q1), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Q1), Much Ado About Nothing (Q1), Romeo & Juliet (Q2), The Taming of A Shrew (Q1), Titus Andronicus (Q2), Troilus & Cressida (Q1) (Pro)
• NEW! Easier text highlighting — just select text and tap "Highlight" (Pro)
• NEW! Customize your home screen to change the order plays to the First Folio order
• NEW! Advanced search now includes searching types of shared lines (initial, medial, final) (Pro)
• NEW! Character statistics like longest speeches and number of asides (Pro)
• NEW! Edith Nesbit's book "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" is now included
• NEW! Mary Macleod's book "The Shakespeare Story-Book" is now included
• NEW! Character Arc Visualizer now shows aggregate statistics for play genres and character genders (Pro)
• NEW! Add Quote of the Day to your lock screen
• NEW! Dictate your notes
• All editions are editable in Scriptigo, our companion script app
• All new editions are searchable (use modern spelling to search original spelling editions too!)
• Improvements to printing, search, and dark mode
• General bugs and usability improvements
There are many other updates, too many to list, including suggestions from you! Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need help.
This will be the last version to support iOS version 14 so please update your devices.
Shakespeare version 8.7.3
Updated At: 2022-12-17
Changes: Dec 17, 2022
Version 8.7.3
Another update to the best Shakespeare app for almost 15 years!
• Fix for more complex search terms
• Fix for adding notes, and notebook view
This is the last version to support iOS 13 so please update your device to ensure you get the latest features and improvements!
Did you miss a recent update? Here are a few of the new things we added:
• NEW! General notes: now you can write general notes on a play in the Notes section (instead of just attached notes to parts of the play text)
• NEW! A 17-week semester course with a teacher curriculum designed to be used for any single play (add-on).
• NEW! Improvements to the new modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
Shakespeare version 8.6.1
Updated At: 2022-07-08
Changes: Jul 8, 2022 Version 8.6.1
New in this release? Just some small bug fixes and improvements.
Did you miss a recent update? Here are a few of the new things we added:
• NEW! A 17-week semester course with a teacher curriculum designed to be used for any single play (add-on).
• NEW! Grammar section to study difficult aspects of Elizabethan speech.
• NEW! Notes have live links.
• NEW! Improvements to the new modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! If you have the add-on for modern translations, you can now adjust their visibility to minimize distraction.
• NEW! Expand and collapse the character descriptions on Dramatis Personae pages to see just a list of characters in the play
• NEW! Search by both languages and dialects used throughout the works
• NEW! Modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! Better images galleries for portraits of Shakespeare and browsing manuscripts
• NEW! "Loose" searching now enabled you to find what you're looking for even if you've misspelled a word.
• NEW! Use the sonnet tag filter to filter and organize the sonnets by thematic tags
• NEW! Added Quartos for King Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet
• NEW! Search additional lexicons: In addition to Schmidt's Lexicon, you can now search Onions' Glossary and Dyce's General Glossary
Shakespeare version 8.5.5
Updated At: 2022-05-17
Changes: May 17, 2022 Version 8.5.5
New in this release? Just some quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
• NEW! Added a section about Shakespeare signatures.
• Lots of small bug fixes and minor improvements
Did you miss a recent update? Here are a few of the new things we added:
• NEW! Improvements to the new modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! If you have the add-on for modern translations, you can now adjust their visibility to minimize distraction.
• NEW! Expand and collapse the character descriptions on Dramatis Personae pages to see just a list of characters in the play
• NEW! Search by both languages and dialects used throughout the works
• NEW! Modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! Better images galleries for portraits of Shakespeare and browsing manuscripts
• NEW! "Loose" searching now enabled you to find what you're looking for even if you've misspelled a word.
• NEW! Use the sonnet tag filter to filter and organize the sonnets by thematic tags
• NEW! Added Quartos for King Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet
• NEW! Search additional lexicons: In addition to Schmidt's Lexicon, you can now search Onions' Glossary and Dyce's General Glossary
Shakespeare version 8.5.4
Updated At: 2022-03-31
Changes: Mar 31, 2022 Version 8.5.4
New in this release? Just some quality of life improvements and bug fixes.
Did you miss a recent update? Here are a few of the new things we added:
• NEW! Improvements to the new modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! If you have the add-on for modern translations, you can now adjust their visibility to minimize distraction.
• NEW! Expand and collapse the character descriptions on Dramatis Personae pages to see just a list of characters in the play
• NEW! Search by both languages and dialects used throughout the works
• NEW! Modern spelling search of Folios and Quartos: just enter the modern spelling of a word and find all alternate spellings where it's located. For example, search for "color" and find "colour", "cullor", and "collour".
• NEW! Better images galleries for portraits of Shakespeare and browsing manuscripts
• NEW! "Loose" searching now enabled you to find what you're looking for even if you've misspelled a word.
• NEW! Use the sonnet tag filter to filter and organize the sonnets by thematic tags
• NEW! Added Quartos for King Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet
• NEW! Search additional lexicons: In addition to Schmidt's Lexicon, you can now search Onions' Glossary and Dyce's General Glossary
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