Welcome to Open Literature

Open Literature combines literary criticism and the internet to produce a platform for appreciating great literature.

Everything on the website is open content, and you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it. We are a community-based project and welcome participation and contribution.

Open Shakespeare is currently being upgraded to a more user-friendly structure. Until that time, only the certain parts of the service will be available. Click here for more information.

Read Shakespeare’s Play and Poems as well as critical essays on Shakespeare.

• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• And many more …

This website uses the Annotator tool and is one of the Open Knowledge Foundation‘s projects in Open Humanities.

If you’d like to get involved with our work, please visit our web form to register your interest.