Every play, sonnet and poem, with a meaning for every hard word, a recording of every play, and the tools to learn a part or write the essay.
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Tap a word
Archaic words are quietly underlined. Tap one for its meaning, tap a name to meet the character, or tap a line for every word in it.
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Hear every play
Download the LibriVox recording of any of the 37 plays. The line being spoken lights up, and the page turns itself.
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Find anything
Search every line Shakespeare wrote. A half-remembered phrase, a character, or Hamlet 3.1.56 takes you straight there.
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Learn your partPRO
Pick a role. Illyria hides your lines and gives you the cue. Hint with first letters, record yourself, and drill the speeches you drop.
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Write the essay
Highlight, bookmark and write in the margin. Every quotation keeps its act, scene and line, ready to cite in MLA, Chicago or APA.
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Meet the cast
Every speaking part has a page: who they are, how much they speak, who they share the stage with, and their key moments.
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Sonnet Studio
See the rhyme, the metre, the quatrains and the turn in all 154 sonnets, and compare two of them side by side.
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A study on iPad
A sidebar for the library, with notes and the cast beside the text. Underline with Apple Pencil to highlight, or circle a word to look it up.
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Yours alone
No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Every word is in the app, so it works offline, and what you read and write stays yours.
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Reading plans
A sonnet a day, the tragedies in a month, or every play in a year, with gentle reminders to keep you going.
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FlashcardsPRO
Cards for lines and for Shakespeare’s vocabulary, with spaced repetition bringing back the ones you keep forgetting.
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Compare the plays
Set plays side by side by length, cast, verse and vocabulary. Tap any chart to open the passage behind it.
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Trace a motif
Follow blood, sleep, storms and more across the plays, and see every place an image comes back.
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Point your camera
Aim at a printed page and Illyria finds the line, so your class edition and the app stay in step.
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Widgets
Your place, the line of the day, a sonnet or your flashcards, right on the Home Screen.
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Quote cards
Share a line as a beautiful card, with the painting that goes with the play.
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Themes & typefaces
Paper, High Contrast and dark mode for everyone. Four more themes and seven typefaces with Pro.
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Present a scene
On iPad, put a scene on the classroom screen and step through it one speech at a time.
Free to read. Pro to master.
Every word of Shakespeare is free, with no trial and no time limit. Illyria Pro is $29.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial, or $12.99 every 3 months. It adds rehearsal, flashcards, note export, iCloud sync, and extra themes, typefaces and app icons.
US prices. The price in your currency, and whether you can have the free trial, are shown in the app. Pro renews until cancelled, which you can do any time in your Apple Account settings.