English Research Areas
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Research Areas
- 18th & 19th Century British Literature
- 19th Century U.S. Literatures
- African American
- Book Studies
- British Romantic
- Digital Humanities
- Early American Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
- Medieval & Early Modern
- Modernist
- Shakespeare
- The Novel & Short Fiction
- Transnational & Postcolonial Literature
- Victorian & Edwardian
Resources
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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This link opens in a new windowContains 11 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, as well as over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th thru 19th centuries. Part of Literature Online (LION).
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Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance This link opens in a new windowThis collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programs, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
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Shakespeare in Performance This link opens in a new windowShakespeare in Performance showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books 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.
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Shakespeare in the Present This link opens in a new windowThis award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
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Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new windowEach volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowProvides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare that were published or produced between 1964 and the present. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia.
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Cambridge Collections Online This link opens in a new windowCambridge Collections Online offers two components, Shakespeare Survey and Econometric Society Monographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. The latest volume, Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text (Volume 62), has been added to the collection as part of the November update to Cambridge Collections Online and Econometric Society monographs are high-quality research works in the fields of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics more generally. Publications range from more or less extensive accounts of the state of the art in a field to which the authors have made significant contributions, to shorter monographs representing important advances on more specific issues.
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Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Nearly 1,700 plays from Bloomsbury, including Methuen Drama, and Arden Shakespeare, and Faber & Faber, plus production stills from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the American Shakespeare Center
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO Version) This link opens in a new window
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) This link opens in a new windowOSEO comprises authoritative texts of poetry, drama, and fiction, from all periods of English literature, and of other important writing from across the humanities.
University of Iowa access includes:
Early Seventeenth Century Drama
Early Seventeenth Century Poetry
Early Seventeenth Century Prose
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Poetry
Renaissance Prose
Restoration Drama
Restoration Poetry
Shakespeare
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EEBO: Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowFrom the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare this collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition.
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First FolioFlip through the pages of one of the copies of the First Folios owned by the Folger Shakepeare Library.
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Shakespeare DocumentedShakespeare Documented, convened by the Folger Shakespeare Library, is the largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.
Books
Most of the library's books by or about Shakespeare are found in the call numbers PR2750 – PR3112. A sampling of titles is listed below
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As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Roger Warren (Adapted by)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2803.A2 W37 2004ISBN: 9781840025279Publication Date: 2005-09-01 -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Abigail Rokison-Woodall (Volume Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2807.A2 R58 2017ISBN: 9781474253888Publication Date: 2017-10-19 -
King Richard III by William Shakespeare; Janis Lull (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2821.A2 L85 1999ISBN: 9780521256506Publication Date: 1999-12-02 -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Pamela Mason (Volume Editor); Sandra Clark (Volume Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2823.A2 C53 2015ISBN: 9781904271406Publication Date: 2015-02-26 -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare; Ann Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2832.A2 T47 2003ISBN: 9780521825429Publication Date: 2003-04-28
Most of the library's books by or about Shakespeare are found in the call numbers PR2750 – PR3112.
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Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear by Leon Harold Craig
Call Number: ebook, access using linkISBN: 9781442677999Publication Date: 2016-01-29 -
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence by Jennifer Higginbotham
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR428.G57 H54 2013ISBN: 9780748655908Publication Date: 2013-01-17 -
The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays by Evelyn Gajowski (Editor); Phyllis Rackin (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2826 .M47 2015ISBN: 9780415845045Publication Date: 2014-09-19 -
The Tempest: Critical Essays by Patrick M. Murphy (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2833 .T462 2001ISBN: 9780815324713Publication Date: 2001-05-24 -
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Evelyn Gajowski (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2965 .A67 2021ISBN: 9781350093225Publication Date: 2020-10-15
Most of the library's books by or about Shakespeare are found in the call numbers PR2750 – PR3112.
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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by John S. Garrison
Call Number: ebook, access using linkISBN: 9780198857716Publication Date: 2024-01-13 -
Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Salem Press (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2848.A2 S35 2014ISBN: 9781619254992Publication Date: 2014-08-30 -
Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage by Dympna Callaghan
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2991.C337 2000ISBN: 1134633114Publication Date: 2002-09-11 -
The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice by David Ruiter (Editor)
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR3024.A73 2021ISBN: 9781350140363Publication Date: 2020-11-26 -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: the American Shakespeare Center by Paul Menzer
Call Number: UI Main Library Stacks PR2894.M46 2017ISBN: 9781472584984Publication Date: 2017-02-23
eBook Collections
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Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new windowEach volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowProvides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare that were published or produced between 1964 and the present. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia.
Video Resources
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Bloomsbury Drama Online Shakespeare''s Globe on Screen (2008-2015) This link opens in a new windowUSERS MUST LOGIN ON OR OFF CAMPUS; This collection features 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage of works by Shakespeare from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning role as Falstaff in Henry IV.
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Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen This link opens in a new windowHarriet Walter leads an all-female cast in these three productions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, all set in a women's prison. In 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Julius Caesar at the Donmar depicted the catastrophic consequences of a political leader's extension of powers beyond the remit of the constitution. With a cast drawn partly from ex-offenders, it stunned audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and posed the question ‘Who owns Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1 and 2 This link opens in a new windowExpanding on the original Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen collection from 2016, this new collection features landmark productions, including the first production from the indoor Jacobean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014. Launching with four films of live productions in March 2018, three more films will be added to the collection in October 2018, and two more in 2019, showcasing the LOGIN ON and OFF CAMPUS. Globe’s two unique playing spaces on London’s Bankside and how different artists respond to them. Each performance transports viewers directly into the standing Yard of the world famous Globe or the magical candlelit interior of the captivating Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
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Shakespeare in DigitalTheatre+Collection of recorded Shakespeare productions from Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC, Donmar Warehouse, and more.
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