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Search Shakespeare's plays and poems
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# Search Shakespeare

Fast search for the complete plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare (including locations and stage directions) using data derived from the [PlayShakespeare](https://www.playshakespeare.com) project.

Screenshot of shearch.me

## This app works offline!

Files are cached on access, via a service worker using [Workbox](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox/).

You can also manually precache texts by clicking one of the **Download all** checkboxes. Texts will be removed from the cache when a checkbox is unchecked.

## Link to texts and search results

As well as search, you can use the app to open texts or citations:

* [shearch.me#Hamlet](https://shearch.me#Hamlet)
* [shearch.me#ham](https://shearch.me#ham)
* [shearch.me#ham.3](https://shearch.me#ham.3)
* [shearch.me#ham.3.1](https://shearch.me#ham.3.1)
* [shearch.me#ham.3.1.56](https://shearch.me#ham.3.1.56)

You can also link to search results:

* [shearch.me#brazen](https://shearch.me#brazen)
* [shearch.me#exit-pursued](https://shearch.me#exit-pursued)

## Search options

There are several options for filtering search results:
* Text name
* Type of text (play, poem or sonnet)
* Speaker
* Speaker gender

You can also click on a word in a text to search for that word.

## Privacy

Google Analytics is used to record the following:

* [Basic visit data](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?ref_topic=2919631).
* Most popular search queries.
* Button tap and click [events](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events).

No additional data is sent to the server.

## Feedback and feature requests

Feedback welcome!

* [Make a comment or request](https://goo.gl/forms/smd5GkvYqRH6cxhm2)
* [File a bug](https://github.com/samdutton/shearch/issues/new)

## Play and poem texts

© 2005-2016 PlayShakespeare.com. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this information under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. Terms at [playshakespeare.com/license](http://www.playshakespeare.com/license).

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Please note that this is not an official Google product.