Resource Guide:
William Shakespeare

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
• Internet Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Documented
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Luminarium
• Shakespeare's Staging
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Shakespeare's Globe Theater (the Virtual Globe)
• Shakespeare on Television
• Shakespeare around the Globe
• Early Editors of Shakespeare

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Adaptations, History and criticism
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Authorship
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Characters
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Comedies
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Film and video adaptations
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Influence
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Literary style
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Poliical and social views
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Stage history
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Tempest
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Tragedies
• Theater and society, England, History, 17th century

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• ArchiveGrid
• Credo Reference
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
• Fuente Académica
• Humanities International Complete
• Literature Resources from Gale
• National Gallery Collection
• OAISter
• Religion and Philosophy Collection

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Bulletin
• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Shakespeare in Southern Africa
• Renaisance Forum
• Renaissance Papers
• Theatre History Studies
• Theatre Journal
• London Journal
• Early Modern Literary Studies

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.