Shakespeare Resources

General Resources

  • Bodleian Library, at the University of Oxford.

  • Complete Works of Shakespeare

  • The Folger Shakespeare Library

  • The Internet Shakespeare Editions, with annotated texts of the plays. From the University of Victoria.

  • Kentucky Shakespeare Festival

  • The McGill Shakespeare Resources Page, includes electronic journals, related resources, festivals and companies, and links to further resources.

  • The Shakespeare Authorship Page, "Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare."

  • The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, provides a general account of Shakespeare's life in Stratford, including pictures of various properties associated with his family, and information for potential visitors. The Birthplace Trust has close ties to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and maintains its own library.

  • The Shakespeare Bookshelf, from the Internet Public Library. The full-text of many of his plays.

  • Shakespeare Editions and Adaptations (1591-1911), includes eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774). Available from Literature Online (LION Complete) under "Individual Collections." Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

  • The Shakespeare Mystery, from Frontline. Discusses authorship debate.

  • Shakespeare Oxford Society, the second oldest continuously operating organization (the Bacon Society dates back to 1886) involved in the two-centuries old Shakespeare authorship debate. The purpose of the Society is to document and establish Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), as the universally recognized author of the works of William Shakespeare.

  • Shakespeare Society of America

  • Shakespeare Quarterly, an electronic journal from JSTOR. Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets, from MIT.

  • Shakespeare and the Internet, maintained by Terry Gray and produced by the Palomar College Library, this metasite contains a host of resources for Shakespeare studies.

  • Shakespeare's Globe

  • Sonnet Central

  • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electrical media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare The scope is international. Current coverage from 1972 on. Updated at regular intervals. Over the course of a year, coverage will move forward at least on year and backwards at least three years. Available off-campus through the proxy server.

    • This page was last updated 3 December 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to bcarring@uky.edu.

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