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| Title | Last Updated | Download Format |
| Folger Digital Texts - Complete Set | April 21, 2016 | TXT |
| All's Well That Ends Well | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Antony and Cleopatra | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| As You Like It | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Comedy of Errors | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Coriolanus | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Cymbeline | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Hamlet | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry IV, Part 1 | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry IV, Part 2 | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry V | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry VI, Part 1 | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry VI, Part 2 | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry VI, Part 3 | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Henry VIII | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Julius Caesar | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| King John | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| King Lear | April 21, 2016 | TXT |
| Love's Labor's Lost | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Lucrece | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Macbeth | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Measure for Measure | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Merchant of Venice | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Much Ado About Nothing | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Othello | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Pericles | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Phoenix and Turtle | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Richard II | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Richard III | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Romeo and Juliet | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Taming of the Shrew | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Tempest | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Timon of Athens | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Titus Andronicus | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Troilus and Cressida | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Twelfth Night | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| Venus and Adonis | July 31, 2015 | TXT |
| The Winter's Tale | April 21, 2016 | TXT |