Cuttings
There isn't an online database of free, good, 90 minute cuttings of Shakespeare plays.
This is insane. We're here to help.
Everyone is constantly repeating the same work: cutting Shakespeare to about 90 minutes. No one shares their scripts. Why? Why? Why? Let's be more generous with each other.
You'll probably want to change parts of them. But at least they're good, workable places to start, dammit.
In a bar, 13,000 words is about 90 minutes. Good luck with the formatting and such - lots of different people did these cuttings, so the formatting is all over the place.
If you have a cutting of a script that is not linked on this list and would like to generously add it, please get in touch (click Chicago).
psst.. hi!
If you've landed here without understanding where you are, please, use the scripts! Also, check out the rest of this website - it'll help give some context to why the cuttings are the way they are.
Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
15,124 words.
Cutting by BRSP, 2014.
Comedy of Errors
11,246 words
Cutting by by BRSP, 2016
Love's Labour's Lost
13,099 words
By BRSP, 2012
Measure for Measure
14,980 words
By BRSP, 2012
Merchant of Venice
13,119 words
By BRSP, 2015
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
12,882 words
By BRSP, 2012
Much Ado about Nothing
10,976 words
By BRSP, 2014
Taming of the Shrew
14,425
By BRSP, 2014
Tempest
13,103 words
By BRSP, 2015
Twelfth Night
13,742 words
By BRSP, 2012
Twelfth Night
13,416 words
By BRSP, 2015
Two Gentlemen of Verona
12,292 Words
By BRSP, 2016
Winter's Tale
15,971 Words
By BRSP, 2012
Tragedies
Anthony and Cleopatra
13,071 words
By BRSP, 2019
Coriolanus
10,352 words
By BRSP, 2018
Cymbeline
13,273 words
By BRSP, 2014
Hamlet
7,465 words
By BRSP, 2016
Hamlet
15,423 words
By BRSP, 2012
Julius Caesar
13,177 words
By BRSP, 2014
King Lear
15,767 words
Br BRSP, 2018
Macbeth
9,597 Words
By BRSP, 2014
Othello
17,793 words
By BRSP, 2015
Romeo and Juliet
12,618 Words
By BRSP, 2012
Romeo and Juliet
9,434 Words
By BRSP, 2017
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
13,939 words
By BRSP, 2017
Troilus and Cressida
13,531 words
By BRSP, 2016
Histories
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry IV, Parts I & II Combined
18,832 words
By BRSP & Hannah Todd
Henry V by New Canon Theatre
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
13,563 words
By BRSP, 2014
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
15,412 Words
By BRSP, 2018