Shakespeare Resources

Shakespeare Resources

The Electronic Text Center's holdings include a variety of Shakespeare resources that range from early Quartos, the complete 1623 First Folio, and early playhouse promptbooks, to more modern editions and to many bibliographical articles that discuss Shakespeare's works.

1) Publicly-accessible Materials

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• The complete works of Shakespeare, Globe Edition (1866)

  42 works: Editors: Clark, William George, 1821-1878; and William Aldis Wright, 1831-1914. MacMillan and Co. Cambridge, 1866 [PR2753 .C6 1866].

• The First Folio and Early Quartos of William Shakespeare.

  46 texts -- early printed versions of some of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The spelling, punctuation, and other 17^th-century printing conventions have not been normalized. Line numbering for each play is "to the end"; that is, running straight through from first to last line rather than restarting with each new scene.

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  New!: A "frames" side-by-side presentation of the First Folio and Globe Edition of Shakespeare's works, for easy comparison.

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• Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century

  © 1997, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Includes 2,272 color digital facsimiles.
  These eight volumes (15 plays) are studies of the stage texts used in various seventeenth-century performances of Shakespeare's plays. G. Blakemore Evans has identified the different manuscript hands that annotate the prompt-books and compared them with other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespearean stage texts. Thus, the collection provides an opportunity to examine Shakespearean performance traditions and innovations.

  
  
• Studies in Bibliography Online.

  © 1997, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Each year Studies in Bibliography presents a wide range of scholarly articles on bibliography, textual criticism, printing history, and book and manuscript study. The Shakespeare Folios, Quartos and other editions form the basis of many learned articles in the journal.

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Edward III now authenticated as the work of William Shakespeare, by the Arden Shakespeare Series. ... Shakespeare by the Sea will be the first theater company in the world to publicly perform excerpts of the play since authentication ... With just three days' notice, the Canadian theater company downloaded the play in [Elizabethan English] from the University of Virginia's Web site and translated an excerpt for production. Read the Play in a later, edited, edition (1897). Read the Play in its original 1596 edition [Elizabethan spelling].

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2) Commerical Shakespeare texts

Licenced for UVa or VIVA users only.

These CDs and online databases are commercial products held by us under a licensing agreement with their publishers. The Electronic Text Center does not have the rights to give or sell general access to these items -- please contact the publishers directly.

Online Resources

Editions and adaptions of Shakespeare : Chadwyck-Healey (UVA only)

584 plays in 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, including 533 images

The Riverside Shakespeare. 45 works. (UVA only) Houghton-Mifflin.

English Poetry Database : Chadwyck-Healey (UVA and VIVA only). Includes:

The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601); Lucrece (1594); The passionate pilgrime (1599); Sonnets (1609); and Venus and Adonis (1594).

English Verse Drama : Chadwyck-Healey (UVA and VIVA only) Includes:

Shakespeare and Fletcher: The Two Noble Kinsmen, (1679)
Shakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1609); The Raigne of King Edvvard the third, (1596); All's Well, that Ends Well (1623); Anthony and Cleopatra (1623); As You Like It (1623); The Comedie of Errors, (1623); Coriolanus (1623); Cymbeline (1623); Hamlet (1623); Henry the Eighth (1623); Henry the Fifth (1623); Henry the Fourth part one (1623); Henry the Fourth part two (1623); Henry the Sixth part three (1623); Henry the Sixth part one (1623); Henry the Sixth part two (1623); Julius Caesar (1623); King John (1623); King Lear (1623); Loues Labour's lost (1623); Macbeth (1623); Measvre, For Measure (1623); The Merchant of Venice, (1623); The Merry Wiues of Windsor, (1623); A Midsommer Nights Dream, (1623); Much adoe about Nothing (1623); Othello (1623); Richard the Second (1623); Richard the Third (1623); Romeo and Juliet (1623); The Taming of the Shrew, (1623); The Tempest, (1623); Timon of Athens (1623); Titus Andronicus (1623); Troylus and Cressida (1623); Twelfe Night (1623); The Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623); The Winters Tale, (1623).

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