About KickAss Shakespeare

What KickAss Shakespeare is

KickAss Shakespeare produces and distributes software and mobile apps designed for, and dedicated to, making Shakespeare readable for anyone at any level. Using a unique format that provides instant inline simplified text for difficult words, phrases and references (all of which were very familiar to the original audiences four hundred years ago) KickAss plays are the most readable Shakespeare anywhere.

But KickAss doesn't stop with just simple text. It optionally provides traditional sidebar explanations and even the primary texts (typically text from the First Folio of 1623) both of which can be displayed side-by-side, speech by speech in a flexible two column flexible format completely configurable by the reader.

What KickAss Shakespeare isn't

You will not find essays on whether or not Hamlet was just a spoiled man-child; whether Romeo and Juliet really experienced true love or intense puppy-lust; or whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth where happily married. (But you might find tidbits such as: Lady Macbeth's first name was, in reality, Grouch, even though it was never mentioned by Shakespeare.)

The KickAss Glossary and Companion to Shakespeare

An major part of KickAss is a 20,000 word and phrase dictionary to Shakespeare's writings. Based on Alexander Schmidt's exhaustive two volume lexicon it is now fully interactive with examples linking to the appropriate passages in the plays and completely searchable by a search routine expressly developed for searching Elizabethan, and in particular Shakespearean, works by accommodating the differences in spelling between then and now.

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Plays

All Plays & poems have two-click access to the KickAss Glossary and many other features to help with readability and navigation

† Macbeth

† Julius Cæsar

† Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet are the first fully produced plays from KickAss Shakespeare. The full plays with common text, annotations, First Folio text, interactive modern text, links to useful information and many other features are now available.

Seven other plays are presented with the original text from the 1600s side by side with the common text and are in the process of being produced. They are: Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night. The others will follow.

† All's Well That Ends Well

† Antony and Cleopatra

† As You Like It

† Comedy of Errors

† Henry IV, part 1

† Henry IV, part 2

† Henry VI, part 1

† Henry VI, part 2

† Henry VI, part 3

† Julius Cæsar

† Love's Labour's Lost

† Macbeth

† Measure for Measure

† Merchant of Venice

† Merry Wives of Windsor

† Midsummer Night's Dream

† Much Ado About Nothing

† Richard III

† Romeo and Juliet

† Taming of the Shrew

† The Tempest

† Timon of Athens

† Titus Andronicus

† Troiles and Cressida

† Twelfth Night

† Two Gentlemen of Verona

† Winter's Tale

Poems

† Venus and Adonis

† The Rape of Lucrece

† The Passionate Pilgrim

† A Lover's Complaint

† The Phoenix and the Turtle

Apps & App Simulators

† Glossary App Simulator

† Play App Simulator

Other Stuff & Fluff

† The really KickAss Glossary

† Quick access to the glossary

† Does the Internet need
another Shakespeare site?

† Where the text comes from

† Reading the old texts

† Annotated list of plays and poems

† About KickAss

† Privacy Policy

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