Online Research Resources

The British Library. Register as a member and use your reader’s number to pre-order books before your visit. Search their catalogue for accurate bibliography citations.

Jstor is an archive of scholarly journals online. Journals include: Shakespeare Quarterly. Access using your Athens password.

Muse is an archive of Scholarly journals online. Journals include: Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Bulletin. Access using your Athens password.

Early English Books Online is a digital archive. It features scanned texts and transcriptions of those texts. A good place to do primary research. Access using your Athens password.

This is an online Shakespeare Concordance. This is the fastest way to look up a quotation or the repeated use of a word in the canon. However, please always check quotations against a published text before citing in essays.

Senate House library catalogue, opening hours and directions.

Google scholar is a useful search engine when doing preliminary research around a topic.

Google books is a online library of digital books. It is a good place to check the accuracy of citations the night before a deadline.

The Folger Shakespeare Library, located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is a world-class research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. It is home to the world’s largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials. It publishes Shakespeare Quarterly. This site refers you to Jstor or Muse for online archives of Shakespeare Quarterly.

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Access using your Athens password.

All of King’s online research resources are accessible through this page.

A gateway to the Web resources for education and research in arts and humanities.

Connect to the REED (Records of Early English Drama) project.

Early Theatre website, an open access online journal.

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