Shakespeare, printable: free side-by-side translations for your classroom

Every play here is the complete original text next to a plain modern English translation — readable online scene by scene, printable per scene, or downloadable as a whole-play PDF. No account, no paywall, and no ads on any of these pages. Free to print and photocopy for classroom use.

Whole-play PDFs

• Macbethcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• Romeo and Julietcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• Julius Caesarcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• Hamletcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• A Midsummer Night's Dreamcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• The Tempestcomplete play, original + modern English, color-matched side-by-side
• The Sonnetsselected sonnets with line-by-line modern translations

Printing a single scene

Open any scene (for example Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 1) and use the Print / save as PDF button in the toolbar. The printout is the same two-column layout: original on the left, modern English on the right, with matching colors pairing each sentence to its translation.

What's in the translations

• Original text from the public-domain Project Gutenberg Globe edition; modern translations written in-house (never copied from other guides).
• Side-by-side reading with sentence-level color pairing, a modern-only mode, and hoverable archaic words on every scene page.
• Scene summaries, famous lines explained, and study sections on the most-taught scenes.
• A paste-any-line translator for passages from any edition your class uses.

Using these with a whole class, department, or district? We'd love to hear how — tell us about your classroom and we'll let you know as new plays and teaching materials are added.