The Shakespeare Collection

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

This collection organizes the vast output of William Shakespeare into a single, navigable hub within the OpenCosmos knowledge base. Shakespeare's work is foundational not just for literature, but for philosophical inquiry into the human condition.

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The Plays

Comedies

• All’s Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter’s Tale

Tragedies

• The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
• The Tragedy of Coriolanus
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• The Tragedy of King Lear
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
• The Life of Timon of Athens
• Troilus and Cressida

Histories

• The Life and Death of King John
• King Richard the Second
• The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
• The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
• The Life of King Henry the Fifth
• The First Part of Henry the Sixth
• The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
• The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
• King Richard the Third
• King Henry the Eighth
• Cymbeline
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• The Two Noble Kinsmen

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Poetry

• Sonnets
• A Lover’s Complaint
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• The Rape of Lucrece
• Venus and Adonis

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This collection provides the structural backbone for Shakespearean knowledge in OpenCosmos, enabling cross-domain inquiry across literature, philosophy, and history.