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This page focuses on resources for the study of Shakespeare provided by UCL Library Services.
For details of the Shakespeare undergraduate module please consult the relevant Moodle pages, here is the online reading list for that module.
UCL Main Library holds printed copies of multiple editions (eg Arden, Oxford, Cambridge) of the works of Shakespeare:
Modern online editions can be accessed using the following databases:
Historical online editions can be accessed using the following database:
Use Explore to search for both print and online critical materials.
The following online resources contain full-text criticism about Shakespeare:
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. Access includes the Bloomsbury & Faber Collection, Nick Hern Books, National Theatre Collection, RSC Live and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen.
If you need to be more comprehensive and search beyond what is available through UCL, the following bibliographies cover Shakespeare:
Filmed theatre productions are available on DVD and within the following databases and websites:
The Library provides access to the following collections of historical documents about Shakespeare:
Documenting over 300 productions from 1997-2016, this digital collection is a critical resource for the study of Shakespeare, theatre, cultural history and early-modern literature. Accessibility statement for Adam Matthew Explorer.
The prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Accessibility statement for Adam Matthew Explorer.
The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.
The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries.
Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare.
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the A-Z entries, it includes illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years.
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