Research Resources

The Rhodes College Media Center holds over 100 Shakespeare film adaptations on DVD. In addition to hundreds of Shakespeare-related holdings in print, 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

• LEME - Lexicons of Early Modern English

• Literature Compass: Shakespeare

• M.I.T. Shakespeare Project - including Hamlet on the Ramparts and Shakespeare Performance in Asia

• Play Shakespeare

• The Richard Brome Project - Professor 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

• The Shakespeare Post

• Shakespeare′s Words

• SHAKSPER (Shakespearean list-serv)

• 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

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