Do you enjoy a good tear-jerking tragedy? Or a clever comedy? How about historical bodice-ripping melodramas? Or even a little poetry?

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare from Focus Multimedia brings them to your PC via CD-Rom.

I know it could be painful to replace your battered old copies of his complete works but you might free some much-needed space on your bookshelves.

This single CD-Rom provides some significant advantages which hard-copy books simply can't compete with.

Not only are all Shakespeare's plays and 154 sonnets available to the reader as searchable digital text, but there is also the option to read and compare up to eight works at the same time.

The CD-Rom is blessed with a well-designed and extremely functional search engine, which really makes a difference to its usefulness as a research tool.

It is possible to search through the entire collected works by word, subject, phrase, century, date, country or category.

Rather than flicking through hundreds of pages of text, you can now find the person, play or quote you are looking for within a matter of seconds.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, this software is definitely not Much Ado About Nothing.

Price: £9.99
Contact: 01889 570156
Feel good factor: 8 out of 10.