Shakespeare Apps Coming for Students

Simon & Schuster and Folger Shakespeare Library will release a set of interactive apps aimed at helping students explore the work of William Shakespeare.

AppNewser has more about the upcoming apps:

Coming this November, the joint effort will release app versions of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They will continue to release plays thereafter until the entire collection is available. The app versions will include audio recordings, videos and photos, which are designed to help teach the texts. This includes audio performances produced at the Folger Theatre, as well as expert commentary from Shakespeare scholars. The apps will also have social networking reading tools on a private network so that teachers and students can take digital notes and share them with each other within the networked text.

If you are looking for un-interactive versions of these famous plays, follow the links below to download free copies of Shakespeare’s most popular works on Project Gutenberg.

Free Copies of the 30 Most Popular Works by William Shakespeare

1. Romeo and Juliet

2. Hamlet

3. Macbeth

4. The Tempest

5. Othello

6. King Lear

7. Julius Caesar

8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

9. The Merchant of Venice

10. Twelfth Night; or What You Will

11. King Richard III