Shakespeare Pro 4+

The #1 Shakespeare App

PlayShakespeare.com

    • 4.8 • 196 Ratings
    • £12.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Over 20 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 support@playshakespeare.com or at http://support.playshakespeare.com.

What’s New

Version 7.0.5

Enjoy this small update with a few bug fixes. :)

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
196 Ratings

196 Ratings

Genflash ,

Modern translations seriously flawed

I’ve just bought the upgrade which provides modern translations of the plays. I haven’t been able to look at these in any depth, but I can say that the ‘Measure for Measure’ translation is truly dreadful. Full of mistakes, and showing almost no understanding of the original language. Who on earth provided the translation, and why wasn’t it checked by someone with an understanding of Shakespeare?
I’ve glanced at a couple of the other plays, where the translations seem much better, so I’m hoping that the Measure for Measure translation isn’t typical...

Developer Response ,

Please keep in mind, any "translation" of Shakespeare is bound to be flawed in some way. That being said, if there are specific issues we should address, please get in touch and we will promptly address them. support@playshakespeare.com or support.playshakespeare.com

jagsiqgdkwbxbx ,

Have never purchased an app so quick

Literally in tears that this exists.

Read all the reviews (the unhinged responses from the developer comes from how they probably know how valuable this app is going to be to some people)

Not a student or a teacher but a Shakespeare enthusiast and have not been able to read any plays this year (usually depend on reading No Fear Shakespeare books when I WFH but since starting my new job, found it hard to take them in public).

Work that has gone into this is crazy - would have paid whatever.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Cosmic Cricketer ,

Excellent, but...

This is a fantastic app in very many ways. Unfortunately, the font size is no longer big enough for me. I have accessibility settings turned on and I have the app's font setting at Huge. My idea of Huge differs greatly from yours. In your next update, could you update the Huge font setting to a size of, say, 24 pt, please? Visually impaired users want to enjoy your brilliant app. (You do have obligations to make content fully accessible to all users)

Developer Response ,

The best way to get your suggestion into the app is to contact us at support@playshakespeare.com or support.playshakespeare.com. (FYI the "Huge" setting for text is currently 24).

App Privacy

The developer, PlayShakespeare.com, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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