Gentle reader, if you have landed here in search of information about Shakespeare or his plays, please accept our humble apologies. We liked the phrase, but have no actual cakes or ale to offer.
An excellent place to start for information about the plays, and other links, is Surfing with the Bard.
The text of Shakespeare's plays can be found at MIT or in Australia. Both have excellent search engines.
The neatest hack can be found at the Shakespeare Poetry Applet - an online simulation of those magnetic poetry sets.