WordWeb/IDEM offers an innovative digital database for representing intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare’s time. This digital representation based on Sematic Web technologies displays a comprehensive corpus of mutual quotations within the texts of this time. WordWeb renews our vision of intertextuality through a new paradigm for representing what is conventionally called “quotation”. Instead of complete texts, WordWeb/IDEM stores only intertextually active passages, i.e., phrases which have been identified in more than one text. These items are not seen as deriving from a famous masterpiece. Instead, they represent much- quoted phrases which just happen to occur also in Hamlet, for example. The name “WordWeb” indicates this new focus: short verbal items (“Word”) are connected to each other by rich links that carry bibliographical information and other annotations (“Web”). As a new methodology, WordWeb can be applied to advance research and understanding of complex relationships in many cultural domains.