EF Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet (photographer: James Lafayette). Public domain, from Wikipedia.
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Shakespeare
Bibliographies - useful for tracking down references. (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Shakespeare) World Shakespeare Bibliography Online - Consists of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2011.
Watch online Digital Theatre Plus - Recordings of live performances from the Liverpool Everyman Playhouse, the RSC and more. Drama online - Watch productions from Shakespeare's Globe theatre. The MIT Global Shakespeare Video & Performance Archive - A collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare and scholarly critical works.
Web Resources BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource - plays, poems, documentaries, interviews and stills of classic Shakespeare production. Includes Cymbeline.
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online: Shakespeare – Online, searchable versions of the works of Shakespeare from the Oxford Shakespeare series. Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) - 11 major editions, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, and 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Understanding Shakespeare - A research tool that links directly from the text of Shakespeare's plays to relevant articles from the JSTOR archive. Shakespeare Documented - The largest collection of images, descriptions and transcriptions of primary-source materials documenting the life of Shakespeare.
The Traffic of the Stage - A database of UK Shakespeare productions between 1996-2007. Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) - A site dedicated to the histories of particular London theatres of Shakespeare's time created by De Montfort University and The V&A. The Theatre - 3D reconstruction and History of the first of the London playhouses built in the now iconic polygonal form. The London Stage 1660-1800 - Facsimile from the Hathi Trust of The London stage, 1660-1800; a calendar of plays, entertainments & afterpieces, together with casts, box-receipts and contemporary comment. Compiled from the playbills, newspapers and theatrical diaries of the period. Touchstone - Database of information about significant Shakespeare collections in the United Kingdom. Bartleby.com: Shakespeare - Shakespeare reference page from Bartleby's free online collections. Including T.S. Eliot’s essay “Hamlet and His Problems” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture “Shakspeare; or, the Poet” Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - The Reading Room at the SBT Shakespeare Centre in Stratford is open to the public. It has extensive holdings of promptbooks from RSC productions and some recordings of performances. Hyper Hamlet - Searchable index of four centuries of Hamlet quotations in context. Includes quotations by 3321 authors from different periods, languages and genres. RICHARD III Screenplay - Full text and additional notes for the screenplay written by Ian McKellen & Richard Loncraine (1995). The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive - Archive of over 3000 illustrations from four of the most significant illustrated editions of Shakespeare's works in the Victorian period. British Universities Film & Video Council: International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio - This authoritative online database of Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings is international in scope, is regularly updated and currently holds over 8,200 records dating from the 1890s to the present day.
In the Library: Shakespeare room in the library basement Primary texts - Classmarks E 34 SHA 1000 – E 34 SHA 8401 Secondary texts - Classmarks E 34 SHA Ada – Zit
Shakespeare DVDS The library has over 135 DVDS of Shakespeare productions from film and performances at the Globe & RSC. Find them in the Shakespeare room or via iDiscover. Journals (Print copies are held in the rolling stacks in the basement) Shakespeare bulletin- online via iDiscover Shakespeare quarterly - online via iDiscover and in print at P SHQ Shakespeare studies - online via iDiscover and in print at P SST Shakespeare Survey - in print at P SHS
Key ebooks - (Find links on iDiscover) Alexander, Catherine M. S. (ed.) 2009. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Kahn, Coppélia. 1997. Roman Shakespeare : warriors, wounds, and women, Feminist readings of Shakespeare. (London: Routledge) Lyne, Raphael. 2007. Shakespeare’s late work (Oxford: Oxford University Press) McDonald, Russ. 2006. Shakespeare’s late style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Mukherji, Subha, and Raphael Lyne (eds.). 2007. Early modern tragicomedy , Studies in Renaissance literature ; v. 22 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer) Thorne, Alison (ed.). 2003. Shakespeare’s romances,(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)