Research Guides: *Guide to Theater Arts at Brandeis: Shakespeare

Shakespeare: online reference

Click here for a list of Shakespeare titles from the Cambridge Collections Online e-book collection.

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Internet Shakespeare Editions
Includes scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays (including Brandeis's First Folio), multimedia explorations of the context of Shakespeare's life and works, and records of his plays in performance.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Maintained at MIT
The Folger Shakespeare
Digital texts, media, and other resources from the Folger Shakespeare Library, home of the world's largest Shakespeare collection.
Open Source Shakepeare
Offers text, concordance, and character searching of the Complete Moby Shakespeare based on the 1866 Globe Edition of the complete works.
PlayShakespeare
Includes electronic versions of Shakespeare's plays, synopses and character lists for each play, and much more.
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Links to national and international Shakespeare associations and institutions; Shakespearean theatre companies and festivals; podcasts; and book, DVD, film, and performance reviews.
Shakespeare Monologues
Easily find monologues (online and downloadable PDFs) within Shakespeare's plays ("For Men," "For Women").

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive (archived website)
"Digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays."
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"A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions."
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image - First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays
Digital facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. Site allows for side-by-side comparison with other digitized texts in their collection.
British Library - Treasures in Full - Quarto Versions of Shakepeare's Plays
"See 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures."
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"Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts."

Folger Digital Collections
"Offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more."
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"Users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches."
Shakespeare Illustrated
Maintained by Harry Rusche at Emory University

Click here to see our collection of Shakespeare's plays on DVD and streaming video.

Click here to see our collection of books (including e-books) about Shakespeare on film.

Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive
"A collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field. "

Royal Shakespeare Collection This link opens in a new window
High-definition video recordings of featuring leading Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplemental teaching materials.