Searching Shakespeare | Shakespeare Searching

The good folks at Clusty.com's search engine labs have created Shakespeare Searched, which "is a search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets." The search results are clustered by topic, work, and character, making it easy to find related material among Shakespeare's thousands of words.

Here's an example of what one item in the results list looks like, from a search for the word blood in Macbeth. By clicking on "surrounding text," you can see the context of the quotation; clicking on "citation" will give you a cut 'n' paste way to acknowledge the quote.

So you if you want to identify the speaker of a famous quotation or if you're looking for a thread of thematic elements, Shakespeare Searched is an easy place to start.