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Library Subject Guides

English Literature: Shakespeare

A guide for UC students and staff

Reference Sources

A dictionary of Shakespeare / Stanley Wells 
Central Library, Level 4, PR 2892 .W456 .D3 1998 and online: A Dictionary of Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare / Michael Dobson
Central Library, Level 4, PR 2982 .O98 2001 and online: The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Shakespeare name dictionary / J. Madison Davis
Central Library, Level 4, PR 2892 .D262

A Dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / Gordon Williams
Central Library, Level 4, PR 428 .S48 .W723

Oxford Reference Online
Offers simultaneous searching of a number of reference books, including:
A Dictionary of Shakespeare, Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford Companion to English Literature and Oxford Companion to British History.

Useful Databases

Shakespearean Resources

Links

The Oxford Shakespeare
Complete text of the 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare ed. W. J Craig. Searchable, and includes line numbers.

Complete works of William Shakespeare
Created by Jeremy Hylton at MIT.

The Internet Shakespeare Edition
Well-organised site.

Illustrated Shakespeare electronic facsimile collection
'This online collection of 12 works, originally published in venues as distant as Philadelphia and Leipzig, includes images produced by an array of technologies available in the 19th and early 20th century.'

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Site of the Globe Theatre, London: some exhibition images and the current performance programme.

Furness Image Collection
University of Pennsylvania Library
"The Furness Image Collection comprises more than 2,000 prints and photographs. The majority date from the nineteenth century, but the Collection also holds earlier and later images. These images illustrate and interpret Shakespeare's works and also document theatrical performers and performances of Shakespeare and other dramatists".

Browsers' Guide to Shakespeare in the Library

PR

Texts

2752-54 Collected works
2761 Comedies
2762 Histories
2763 Tragedies
2841 Poems
2843 Songs
2848 Sonnets
2849 Doubtful works
2892 Concordances, Dictionaries, Quotations
 

Biography; The Globe; Sources

2894 Shakespeare's life
2920 The Globe theatre
2937 Authorship
2953-55 Shakespeare's sources
2957-9 Shakespeare's relationship to contemporaries
 

Criticism

2965-79 History of Shakespearean criticism
2981 Comedies
2982 Histories
2983 Tragedies
2989-92 Characters
2991 Women
2992 Other types of character
eg heroes
2994 Wit and humour
2995-7 Technique
3000-3070 eg staging, performance, narrative, plot.
Shakespeare's treatment of particular subjects eg
law, madness, music, death, love
3071-3088 Textual criticism
3072 - 81 Language, pronunciation
3091 Performance
3093 Shakespeare on film
3100 Stage history
3109 Shakespeare performance in countries other than England.