How do I print them double-sided?

Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.

Can I edit the cards?

Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 38 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.

Can I print a set for every student?

Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.

What if I find a card that is wrong?

Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.

Do I need an account?

No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.

Printable flash cards

38 Shakespeare flashcards, ready to print. $2.99, once.

One payment buys the deck twice over: the printable PDF and every card unlocked to play online. Eight to a sheet, cut guides on every card, and the answer sheet already mirrored so a long-edge duplex print puts every answer on the back of its own question. 15 pages, US Letter, black and white. Grades 8–12.

Both halves, one price. A single deck printable is $1.29 on the store shelf and unlocking a deck to play is $2.99 — $4.28 for the two. Here they are the same $2.99 purchase, so you save $1.29 — and there is one receipt to keep instead of two.

Includes every card unlocked to play online — $4.28 bought separately. One payment, no account, no renewal.

Same price, opens in the editor. Reword any card, add your own, print it your way.

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15 pages, and the backs are already right

Every front sheet is followed by its own back sheet with the rows reversed. Print double-sided, flip on the long edge, and answer number 7 is behind question number 7. Print a deck you built yourself, flip on the short edge, and every answer lands on the wrong card — which nobody finds out until sixty cards have been cut apart.

38 cards — counted out of the file, not rounded up
Eight cards a sheet, with cut guides
US Letter PDF, black and white, photocopier-friendly
Print a set per student, every class, every year

38 cards — the canonical size of the set, not a round number. The First Folio of 1623 prints 36 plays; Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen are Shakespeare's but were left out of it, and both are on cards here, marked as outside the Folio.

Every card here is cited to two independent sources

Two different organisations — not a standards body and a website reprinting it — and a script refuses the card if the two disagree, so the check runs on every card rather than on the ones somebody remembered to look at. A second specialist then re-verified this deck from sources of their own, without reading our citations first. A further 5,420 cards across 30 other decks were read end to end by a subject specialist instead, and we say which is which on every deck rather than averaging the two into one flattering word.

What 38 printed cards do that a screen does not

A phone deck is one card at a time. A printed deck is a pile you can split: the ones you know, the ones you nearly know, and the ones you keep missing. That third pile is the entire study session, and it is the thing a scrolling app hides from you.

Print once, use all year. The licence covers a set per student, every class, every year.
No device, no login, no data. Works in a cover lesson, on a bus, or at a kitchen table. Grades 8–12, filed under english & reading.
Change what you disagree with. Every card loads into the free maker on this site. Reword it, drop it, add your own, reprint.

Here are the first 30 cards, written out

Check them against your own textbook before you spend anything. If you do not like how they are worded, do not buy the deck — that is what this list is for.

The Tempest: Folio comedy; a romance to modern editors — Prospero raises a storm to bring his usurping brother ashore.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Folio comedy — two friends leave home for court and both fall for the same woman, Silvia.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Folio comedy — two Windsor wives make a fool of Falstaff, who is courting them both for money.
Measure for Measure: Folio comedy; a modern 'problem play' — Angelo condemns Claudio, then propositions Claudio's novice sister.
The Comedy of Errors: Folio comedy — two sets of identical twins, parted by shipwreck, collide in Ephesus.
Much Ado About Nothing: Folio comedy — Beatrice and Benedick are tricked into love while Hero is slandered at the altar.
Love's Labour's Lost: Folio comedy — four men swear off women for three years, and the Princess of France promptly arrives.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Folio comedy — four Athenian lovers, a fairy quarrel and Bottom's ass's head, all in one wood.
The Merchant of Venice: Folio comedy — Shylock's bond of a pound of flesh, undone by Portia in a lawyer's disguise.
As You Like It: Folio comedy — Orlando courts Rosalind in the Forest of Arden while she is banished and disguised as a boy.
The Taming of the Shrew: Folio comedy — Petruchio marries the unwilling Katherine and sets out to subdue her.
All's Well That Ends Well: Folio comedy; a modern 'problem play' — Helen wins Bertram as husband and he runs off to the wars.
Twelfth Night: Folio comedy — shipwrecked Viola serves Orsino as a boy, and Olivia falls for the disguise.
The Winter's Tale: Folio comedy; a romance to modern editors — Leontes' jealousy destroys, then a statue moves 16 years on.
King John: Folio history — John holds the crown against France and the claim of his boy nephew Arthur.
Richard II: Folio history — Richard exiles Bolingbroke, seizes his lands, and loses the crown to him.
Henry IV, Part 1: Folio history — Prince Hal drinks with Falstaff, then kills Hotspur at Shrewsbury.
Henry IV, Part 2: Folio history — the king dies, Hal succeeds him and casts Falstaff off.
Henry V: Folio history — Henry invades France and wins Agincourt against the odds.
Henry VI, Part 1: Folio history — the English lose France; Talbot falls and Joan La Pucelle leads the French.
Henry VI, Part 2: Folio history — Gloucester is murdered, Jack Cade rebels, and York moves on the throne.
Henry VI, Part 3: Folio history — the crown passes back and forth between Henry VI and Edward IV.
Richard III: Folio history — though its own head title in the Folio calls it a tragedy. Richard kills his way to the crown.
Henry VIII: Folio history — Wolsey falls, Katherine is divorced, Elizabeth is born; most scholars see Fletcher's hand.
Troilus and Cressida: Folio tragedy — but missing from the Folio's own catalogue. Troilus loves Cressida as Troy grinds on.
Coriolanus: Folio tragedy — Rome's greatest soldier, banished by the people, turns an enemy army on Rome.
Titus Andronicus: Folio tragedy — Rome, rape, mutilation and a cannibal banquet; the earliest tragedy given to Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet: Folio tragedy — a Verona blood feud kills the two young people who fall in love across it.
Timon of Athens: Folio tragedy — Timon ruins himself on gifts, is refused help, and turns man-hater.
Julius Caesar: Folio tragedy — Brutus joins the conspiracy, Antony's oration turns Rome, and Philippi settles it.

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Questions

How do I print them double-sided?: Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
Can I edit the cards?: Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 38 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.
Can I print a set for every student?: Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.
What if I find a card that is wrong?: Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.
Do I need an account?: No. $2.99 at Stripe, the file downloads on the way back, and the deck stays unlocked in this browser.