Bardbase

Shakespeare's complete works with integrated scholarly references

Bardbase pairs Shakespeare's plays and poetry with five major scholarly reference works, cross-referenced against the text so you can look up a word or construction without leaving the page. Everything is free and open source.

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References

  • Schmidt Shakespeare Lexicon — definitions of every word Shakespeare used, with citations
  • Onions Glossary — concise glossary of archaic and changed-meaning words
  • Abbott Grammar — Shakespeare's grammar, syntax, and rhetorical devices
  • Bartlett's Concordance — index of every significant word across all works
  • Henley & Farmer — historical slang, cant, and colloquial language

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Project

Bardbase is an open-source project. The source code and compiled SQLite database are publicly available on GitHub.

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