USAFA Library Guides: English: Shakespeare Research

Library Resources

Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
ProQuest
A comprehensive database includes scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, government reports, and newspapers in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.

Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies
A book series that contain compiled lists of scholarship about Shakespeare's plays

Shakespeare Documented
A multi-institutional resource documenting Shakespeare in his own time.
Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama
Compiled by the Folger Library, the Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama is a database of other plays from Shakespeare's time.
Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)
Early Modern Manuscripts Online provides transcriptions, metadata and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries located in the Folger Library.
Folger Shakespeare Library's Pre-1813 Imprint Collection
Folger Shakespeare Library's Pre-1813 Imprint Collection contains digital scans of books that would have existed during Shakespeare's lifetime.
Cause Papers Database
The Cause Papers Database is a searchable database of more than 15,000 cause papers relating to cases heard in the Church Courts of the diocese of York between 1300 and 1858.
Europeana
Europeana provides access to digitized versions of artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and more from institutions across Europe.
British History Online
British History Online is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century, are easily searchable and browsable online.

Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Collection
Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Collection contains early printed Shakespeare: Quartos of plays, as well as First, Second, Third, and Fourth Folios.
Folger Library's First Folios
This will take you to information about Shakespeare's First Folios, or which the Folger Library owns 82 of the 235 surviving folios. From there you can read a digitized version of one of the folios.
The Bodleian First Folio
A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Arch. G c.7.
Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations taken from the most significant illustrated editions of Shakespeare’s plays in the Victorian period.

Folger Shakespeare Library's Performance History Collection
The Folger performance history collection includes a massive array of resources on past productions, including about 250,000 playbills and some 2,000 promptbooks. Although Shakespeare is well represented, these materials are not restricted to his work. Films, recordings, and more continue to be added to the collection, as do the papers of major theatrical figures.
Internet Shakespeare Editions's Shakespeare in Performance
The Shakespeare in Performance database features materials from over 1000 film and stage productions related to Shakespeare's works. You can view director's notes, images of stage and costume design, performance stills, posters, information about a particular company or festival and the actors involved in Shakespeare performance, and cast and crew listings.
Early Modern London Theatres
Early Modern London Theatres is a database containing information about theater performances, including Shakespeare, during London's early modern theater scene.