Research Guides: Literature: Drama and Shakespeare

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Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window Streaming video of award-winning productions, plus accompanying interviews, essays, and expert insights into the theatre-making process
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Films On Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming videos including educational films, archival footage, and newsreels in most subject areas
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Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window Streaming video of full-length Metropolitan Opera performances
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Folger Shakespeare Library This HUGE resource holds the world's largest Shakespeare collection. Manuscripts, images, scholarly materials and more. Compare 19th-century productions of Shakespeare with today's through historic photographs and promptbooks. Look at letters written by Queen Elizabeth I. Examine rare paintings in "up close and personal" detail. Read diary entries from over 200 years ago.
American Shakespeare Center Field-trip worthy: 1.5 hours away! By re-creating Renaissance conditions of performance, the ASC explores its repertory of plays for a better understanding of these great works and of the human theatrical enterprise past, present, and future. Educational resources, Shakespeare experts, and more.
Discovering Literature: Shakespeare & Renaissance from the British Library
Harvard's Shakespeare Research Guide Reliable editions and key scholarship as well as useful databases, reference works, and research tools. You may not have access to some materials. Be sure to browse the Shakespearana section.
Open Source Shakespeare Concordance Find the words you're looking for across any of the Bard's works.

Comparative Drama A peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to drama studies, international in spirit and interdisciplinary in scope
Modern Drama A quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of dramatic literature
TDR: The Drama Review An academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts

Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation "[A]rticles that analyze appropriation as a process of collaboration with Shakespeare, and to that end seek work that either demonstrates something new both about Shakespeare and about the field of appropriation or that works with Shakespeare to extend theories of adaptation and appropriation."
The Hare The Hare is a peer-reviewed, online academic journal published three times yearly. The journal publishes short essays on the dramatic, poetic, and prose works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The journal also publishes academic book reviews, and provides a public forum for open exchange between scholars in the field.
Renaissance Quarterly The sole scholarly journal devoted to the full expanse of Renaissance theater and performance
Shakespeare Publishes articles drawn from the best international research on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism, historical and textual scholarship, and performance
Shakespeare Bulletin Publishes articles at the cutting edge of Shakespearean and early modern performance studies and theater history
Shakespeare Quarterly A leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews
Shakespeare Studies An international volume of essays, studies and reviews dealing with the cultural history of early modern England and the place of Shakespeare's production in it.