Research Resources

The Rhodes College Media Center holds over 100 Shakespeare film adaptations on DVD, and many more on VHS. In 2009, the College Archives scanned nearly three hundred 19th-century illustrations from the Farnsworth Shakespeare Print Collection, all of which are available for viewing online. In addition to hundreds of scholarly studies in the stacks (scan the call numbers PR2800-PR3000), Barret Library subscribes to many online databases and journals useful in the study of Shakespeare, including:

• World Shakespeare Bibliography - The most comprehensive database of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1962.
• EEBO - Early English Books Online - Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.
• Oxford English Dictionary - An online edition of the OED, the historical dictionary of the English language, with numerous citations from Shakespeare′s works.
• Dictionary of National Biography - An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain′s past.
• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Shakespeare Bulletin

Additional online resources include:

• 100+ books on Shakespeare

• Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation

• Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare

• CERES - Cambridge English Renasissance Electronic Service

• DEEP - Database of Early English Playbooks

• EMLS: Early Modern Literary Studies; they also provide a detailed list of Renaissance texts available online, and additional resources

• Folger Shakespeare Library

• Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies

• Internet Shakespeare Editions

• King Lear Quarto vs. Folio variant exercise

• LEME - Lexicons of Early Modern English

• Literature Compass: Shakespeare

• M.I.T. Shakespeare Project - including the Global Shakespeares video & performance archive and Hamlet on the Ramparts

• Play Shakespeare

• The Richard Brome Project - Professor Michael Leslie is one of the editors

• SAA - The Shakespeare Association of America

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

• Shakespeare DATABASE Project

• Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio

• Shakespeare′s Globe Theatre in London

• Shakespeare Illustrated

• The Shakespeare Institute

• SHAKSPER (Shakespearean list-serv)

• Shakespeare′s Words

• Sh:in:E - Shakespeare in Europe

• Small Latine & Lesse Greeke - T. W. Baldwin′s 1944 study

• Touchstone - a tool for Shakespeare research in the United Kingdom