LibGuides: ENG 434B Shakespeare (Walker): Library Guides

Secondary Sources

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
1926-
Literary criticism published in journal articles, book chapters, books and more. Video tutorial for MLAIB

JSTOR Understanding Shakespeare
Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR that reference the line.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
1966-
Annotated citations of scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.
Books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, information about theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, and electronic media
ITER Bibliography
Bibliography of the Middle Ages and Renaissance covering scholarship in archaeology, art, history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and history of science for the years 400-1700.
It provides citations for books, journal material published since 1842 (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies), and citations for essays in books published since 1993.

Streaming Video Resources

For more information on streaming databases, please visit the Online Movies & Streaming Video Guide.

Theatre in Video
Streaming video of theatre productions and documentaries about performance.
Theatre in Video presents online streaming video of complete professional performances of more than 250 well-known plays, together with more than 500 video documentaries. View and bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples.

Drama Online video performances
Royal Shakespeare Company and Globe On Screen productions
BBC Shakespeare Videos
The University Libraries offers online access to all 37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC.

Academic Video Online
Includes Live from Stratford-Upon-Avon series, Shakespeare series (from LA, 1980s), and related workshop and interpretation videos.
Kanopy
This streaming video service provides access to thousands of titles in such areas of the arts, humanities, business, sciences, media/communications, education and more.
Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.

Reference

Oxford English Dictionary
Meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Lexicons of Early Modern English
1480-1702
Explore word histories in this compilation of over 150 dictionaries from the early modern period
Compiles over 150 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries and glossaries from the early modern period in which either source or target language is English, as well as linguistic treatises, and encyclopedic or topical works. A half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia.

Primary source collections

Shakespeare Documented
Selected contemporary accounts of plays drawn from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation project
Manuscripts of actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626). This archive includes his personal and professional papers and those he inherited from his father-in-law Philip Henslowe (d. 1616).

journals

ebooks

Arden Shakespeare play editions
Click on highlighted words or phrases for notes.

New Oxford Shakespeare Online
A new edition of Shakespeare's plays with both modern spelling editions for reading or performing and a critical reference edition with original spelling for literary research.
The authorship companion provides essays about methods and case studies illustrating Shakespeare's collaborations with other authors.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III by Richard Dutton (Editor); Jean E. Howard (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470997291

Publication Date: 2008
The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare by Robert Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9780203835234

Publication Date: 2013
Shakespeare's Comedies: A Guide to Criticism by Emma Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470776919

Publication Date: 2008

Sources from the era

Shakespeare and performances

Literary Print Culture: The Stationers Company Archive
1554-2007
Collection of primary source documents related to the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding.
Shakespeare in Performance
Prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library for performances of Shakespeare's plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
Includes digital reproductions of the Folger Library's prompt book collection, predominantly from British and American performances from the late 17th century to 1970. Also includes supporting materials (ephemera, photographs, correspondence, etc.) for 17 selected plays.
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance
1997-2016
Material from the performance and architectural archives of the modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s 1599 Globe Theatre.
The performance archive shows how productions at the reconstructed Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse were conceived, rehearsed, dressed, marketed, sound tracked, how props were used, how the audiences behaved and the theatre history and performance lessons that were observed and learned. The architectural archive contains material on how the reconstruction of the theatre was designed and planned and some of the conversations and debates that informed construction decisions. In addition, there is also material on the theatre’s annual reports, communications to its supporters and oral histories detailing some of the early history of the reconstructed theatre.
Performance Design Archive Online
Books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos about design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.
Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship and the Stage
Good for: Examining scripts of plays submitted for license in England before 1824.
Contains: Archive of plays, diaries, playbills, theatre records, and correspondence.
Dates covered: 1737-1824.

Other writers from the era

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Good for: Researching early English literature and culture.
Contains: Most extant printed books in English published before 1700.
Dates covered: 1475-1700.
Image files and PDFs available for all books; many books have also been scanned and have searchable text included.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Good for: Researching 18th-century English literature and culture.
Contains: Most extant books published in English.
Dates covered: 1701-1800.
Image files and PDFs and text available for most works.
Literary Manuscripts: the Brotherton Collection
1660-1830
Manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Perdita Manuscripts
1500s-1600s
Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Other historical sources from the era

Age of Exploration
1420-1920
Primary sources like manuscripts, maps and illustrated documents, diaries and ship logs recording the experiences of Europeans as they explored trade routes, colonized the Americas and Australasia, and raced to the North and South Poles.
ARTstor
Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
1500-1900.
Searchable collection of women's letters and diaries.
Defining Gender
Good for: Evidence of changing views about gender, themed around conduct, domesticity, consumption and leisure, education, and the body.
Contains: Primary sources like correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents.
Dates covered: 1500s-1920.
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945
1543-1945
Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
1500-present
Primary source materials that tell the story of global trade in chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
The Grand Tour
1550-1850
Firsthand travel accounts of British tourists visiting Europe.
Routledge English Historical Documents
476 -1914
Primary sources with editorial commentary representing significant British historical documents, like treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings and more.

ENG 434B Shakespeare (Walker): Library Guides