Green River LibGuides: Shakespeare: Find Web Sources

Notable Websites

Shakespeare Resources on the Web

While the 'Featured Online Shakespeare Collections" in the box below are a great place to start looking for articles, images, plays, and more - the linked resources here also provide useful information on the bard, his work, and his life.

The Bodleian First Folio
A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Arch. G c.7.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
"Internet Shakespeare Editions published high-quality materials on Shakespeare's works, his plays in performance, and his life and times."
MIT Global Shakespeare
Video and performance archives - view productions of various plays
SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference
A website dedicated to scholarly conversation on the playwright
"And there's the humor of it": Shakespeare and the Four Humors
This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Shakespedia
Learn more about the life and works of William Shakespeare - from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Shakespeare in historical context from The Internet Shakespeare, a non-profit scholarly website
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library
Home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection
Shakespeare Documented (from Folger Library)
Shakespeare Documented brings together digitized versions of various primary documents relating to Shakespeare's life, work, and influence. A cooperative project convened by the Folger Shakespeare Library in observance of the writer's 400th birthday, the site features high-quality scans of 400 documents otherwise scattered among various libraries and museums. Scans are presented with three views: a thumbnail on the image's main page plus two enlarged versions

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The British Library

Shakespeare at the British Library
Search through articles on the life and times of the playwright

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Open Education Resources

Open Source Shakespeare
Access full-text copies of the playwright's sonnets, poems, plays, and more.
The Oxford Shakespeare - Bartely.com
The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare - search 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse

Google Advanced Search

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Use Google Advanced Search for power searching on the general web

Note your ability to limit to one particular domain (.gov, .edu, .org):

Google Advanced Search
Use this search to help you limit by resource, date and more. Find specific types of websites, such as those created for academic purposes (.edu) or government (.gov).

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