What is KickAss Shakespeare?

In short KickAss Shakespeare is the most readable Shakespeare anywhere.

Above all else the goal of KickAss Shakespeare is to make Shakespeare's plays and poems accessible and readable: readable without being preachy or teachy. The fully produced plays provide instant replacement text for archaic words, phrases and references that are no longer common knowledge. These optional substitutions are not definitions (though the do provide the meaning for the original text) but rather alternate text that allows the flow of the reading to continue uninterrupted.

All KickAss plays and poems provide one-click access to the huge Glossary and growing companion to Shakespeare that has over 20,000 entries with extensive examples and click-able cross-references to where the terms are used in the plays, sonnets and poems.

Alongside the conventional text is the text as it appeared in original publications from the late 1500's and early 1600's so you always have the original spelling, punctuation and syntax available for comparison. We call these texts the 'primary texts'. For the majority of the plays these come from the First Folio published in 1623.

A fully produced KickAss play or poem isn't a book nor is it a static web-page rather a produced KickAss play is an interactive, highly configurable presentation with the essential goal to make Shakespeare readable. When Shakespeare is readable enjoyment it isn't far away.

KickAss Shakespeare produces and distributes software and mobile apps designed and dedicated to make Shakespeare readable for anyone at any level. Using a unique format that provides on demand ,incline translations along with the traditional sidebar explanations. In addition

KickAss Plays are highly configurable with a choice of text options from the original source texts to prose formatted traditional renderings.

We hope that you find www.KickAssShakespeare.com useful.

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† Search all of KickAss Shakespeare

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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