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Free, online, complete, *annotated* Shakespeare.
It's 2015, why the hell can't I find this?

>inb4 someone tells me you can find Shakespeare easily online

note the following conditions:
Free: costing no money
Online: accesible via the world wide web
Complete: including at least all 38 plays
Annotated: So I don't have to reference other material every other sentence.
Shakespeare: a guy
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>>7358068
>Shakespeare: a guy
[citation needed]
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mfw you can find free high quality audio dramatizations of the bible, every major edition, annotated complete free and online.

The entire Western Canon deserves this treatment . How are there billions of hours of crap on youtube yet nobody has undertaken this? it should have been one of the first things we did with the internet.
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Dude you can get his complete annotated works on Amazon for like 99 cents.
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If you like pdfs, these should be on bookzz

Cambridge Dover Wilson -- Henry VI, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Comedy of Errors, King John, Love's Labour's Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale, Henry VIII

New Cambridge -- Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, Measure for Measure, King Lear

Raffel -- Richard III, The Tempest
Arden -- Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing
Dawson -- Richard II
Foakes -- Midsummer Night's Dream
Jowett -- Timon of Athens
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>>7358185
forgot

New Cambridge (or Raffel) -- Macbeth
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>>7358118
No one wants to do it, simple as that.
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Annotating literature can take a lifetime.
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>>7358068
Is this what you're looking for? Does pdf work for you? Lemme know and I'll share it somehow...
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>>7358932
I think OP was asking "why is there not a thing like this that is effortlessly accessible even for lazy fucks"
"in this day and age"
">20+15"
">implying"
rather than expressing an actual need for the content.
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Not OP, but is it better to read Shakespeare, or see Shakespeare performed?
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>>7358949
Both
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>>7358949
>>7358957
This desu. Read a play with annotations first and then go see it performed, you'll appreciate it more.
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How about No Fear Shakespeare?

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

>annotated
Yes, mouse-overs (but rather sparsely)
>Free: costing no money
yes
>Online: accesible via the world wide web
yes
>Complete: including at least all 38 plays
No - looks like 18 plays
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Look up variorum editions. Some are online. The
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http://genius.com/albums/William-shakespeare/Macbeth

it's real, lmao
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>>7358965
Other way around is what most scholars advise.
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>>7358118
This is a Librivox recording, All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.
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