Resources

Here are a few of the online resources available for Shakespeare studies. We will continue to expand this list throughout the semester.

| Folger Digital Shakespeare | LibriVox (free audio) | UMD Library Resources

Our wonderful librarians at UMD have developed a number of finding aids to use with our collections. These include:

• British and US Primary Sources: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/primary_sources

• English and American Literature: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/literature

• William Shakespeare: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/williamshakespeare

• ResearchPort at the University of Maryland Libraries: See especially ArtStor, Early English Books On Line, Early English Prose Fiction (LION), English Drama (1280-1915) (LION), Films on Demand Digital Educational Video, Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance, Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare Quartos Archive, WorldCat (FirstSearch), Women Writers Online

• Understanding Shakespeare, on JSTOR in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library, https://labs.jstor.org/shakespeare/

• Internet Archive, Huge online archive of books and more. But, CLUNKY to find things. www.archive.org For Calendar of State Papers, choose a text search, and then use key words CALENDAR STATE PAPERS DOMESTIC and the ruler (ie: ELIZABETH I or JAMES I) to access the volumes. There are multiple volumes for a reign, and they are not always labeled as fully as they might be....)

• Folger Shakespeare Library, including Digital Image Collection: http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6, which is an amazing digitization project. Not comprehensive of the Folger Shakespeare Library holdings, but provides access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from their collection, including manuscripts, art, and early English books, and Folgerpedia, the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collaboratively edited encyclopedia of all things “Folger” http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Main_Page, and Hamnet, the online catalog for the Folger collection. http://hamnet.folger.edu/

• Bodleian Library, http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley

• Biblioteque Nationale de Francais, http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

• Washington Area Performing Arts Archive, with resources available to view in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. http://www.wapava.org/

• John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine: Presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland… at Cambridge University Library, Treasures of the Library, http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ATLAS-00002-00061-00001/1