Shakespeare: Digital Resources
Hi, team. What I’ve done with this page so far is to go through some lists of Digital Resources for Shakespeare Studies – most notably Laura Estill’s and Sarah Werner’s excellent lists, but also the old, sprawling, and frequently defunct lists curated by Terry Gray and Alan Liu. From all of these, I tried to distill a list of digital resources that I imagined would be useful for upper-level undergraduate classes, both for faculty designing and teaching them and for students completing assignments. The job that remains is to annotate each of these items very simply. I’m trying to keep annotations to two sentences: one describing what the resource is and one suggesting how it could be useful to our target audience.
The preliminary list I generated follows; I’ll aim to get the annotations done this week (extended to end of March!). But in the meantime, PLEASE feel free to add items to the list that you think would be beneficial—I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of useful sites (and would love to know about them)! And if you have any other suggestions about how this could work better for our target audience, let me know.
-- Rob
1. Shakespeare: Texts
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” as a collection of words
• The Plays and Poems (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
Internet Shakespeare Editions—a monumental work in progress—offers newly edited texts for each of Shakespeare’s plays in both original spelling and modernized texts, as well as a wealth of supplementary material: facsimiles of early editions, texts of sources and analogues, recent performance histories, as well as tools for exploring textual statistics, character parts, word clouds, and more. (Editing work is still in progress for many plays.)
• Folger Digital Texts
The digital counterpart to the Folger Shakespeare Library editions. Raw texts of all the plays (without editorial content) which can be read online or downloaded in a variety of formats.
• Open Source Shakespeare
Based on a text drawn from the 1864 Globe edition, the site offers a digital concordance for Shakespeare’s works, as well as an advanced search feature for exploring the language of the plays.
• HamletWorks
A remarkable resource for studying Hamlet, including an “enfolded” text of the play which highlights the variants between Q2 and F (click on “Linked Enfolded Hamlet” on the left and then “Enfolded Hamlet” at the top), and also a digital variorum edition which sets out to collate all of the commentary on every single line of the text (click on any of the line numbers on the left of the enfolded text).
• Shakespeare Line Count
A useful tool for mapping out the size of the speaking parts in each play. (Internet Shakespeare Editions does this better, but hasn’t yet finished this work for all plays.)
• Oxford English Dictionary
An indispensable resource for tracing the history and development of more than 600,000 words in English. By subscription.
• Lexicons of Early Modern English
A database that brings together more than 200 early modern texts about the English language (bilingual dictionaries, word lists, and so on). Useful if you need to dig deeper than the OED. Although LEME is public, there is also a licensed version of the site that expands its scope and functionality greatly.
• Silva Rhetoricae
“The Forest of Rhetoric”: a digital resource for exploring classical rhetoric which you can enter either through the trees (the general topics mapped out on the left) or else through the flowers (the specific rhetorical devices indexed on the right).
2. Early Modern Literature: Texts
Digital tools for exploring other texts from the early modern period
• EEBO-TCP
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/
• Oxford Text Archive: TCP
http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/
• Literature Online (LiOn)
http://literature.proquest.com/
• Luminarium (incl. Renascence Editions)
http://www.luminarium.org
• Other Renaissance Works (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/Texts/renaissance/?t=all
• Early Modern Literary Texts
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsetxt.html
• Shakespeare His Contemporaries
http://shakespearehiscontemporaries.northwestern.edu/shc/home.html
• Digital Renaissance Editions
http://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/Foyer/plays/
• Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama (Folger)
http://digitalanthology.folger.edu
• Queen’s Men Editions
http://qme.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Foyer/Texts/
• Bibles
https://www.biblegateway.com
• Ben Jonson page
http://www.hollowaypages.com/Jonson.htm
• Digital Donne
http://donnevariorum.tamu.edu
• The Holinshed project
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/
• Foxe’s Acts and Monuments online
https://www.johnfoxe.org
• Early Stuart Libels
http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/
• Broadside Ballads Online
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
• English Broadside Ballads Archive
http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu
3. Shakespeare: Books
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” as a collection of books
• Digitized First Folios (Wynken de Worde)
http://sarahwerner.net/blog/digitized-first-folios/
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/book.html
• The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
http://www.quartos.org
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html
• Facsimiles (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/overview/book.html
• Shakespeare’s Works (Folger)
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-works
4. Early Modern Literature: Books
Digital tools for exploring other books from the early modern period
• EEBO
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/
• Early European Books
http://eeb.chadwyck.co.uk/
• ESTC, USTC, ISTC
http://estc.bl.uk/
http://www.ustc.ac.uk
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/
• Database of Early English Playbooks
http://deep.sas.upenn.edu
• Furness Shakespeare Library, SCETI (Penn)
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/
• British Printed Images to 1700
http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/
5. Early Modern Literature: Documents
Digital tools for exploring early modern documents pertinent to Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Documented
http://www.shakespearedocumented.org
• Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
http://www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk
• Luna (Folger)
http://luna.folger.edu/
6. Shakespeare in History
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” as a historical figure
• Shakespeare’s Life and Times (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/index.html
• Map of Early Modern London
http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca
• Luna (Folger)
http://luna.folger.edu/
• English Renaissance in Context
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm
• Virtual Paul’s Cross Project
https://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu
7. Early Modern English Theatre
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” on the early modern stage
• Patrons and Performances (REED)
https://reed.library.utoronto.ca
• Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/
• Early Modern London Theatres
http://emlot.kcl.ac.uk
• Lost Plays Database
https://www.lostplays.org/
8. Shakespeare on Stage
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” in theatrical productions
• Shakespeare in Performance (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Theater/dbindex/
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
http://www.worldshakesbib.org
• Shakespeare and the Players
https://shakespeare.emory.edu
• MIT Global Shakespeares
http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/#
• Shakespeare and the Players
https://shakespeare.emory.edu
• MIT Global Shakespeares
http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/#
9. Shakespeare on Screen
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” in film and television productions
BUFVC: Shakespeare
http://bufvc.ac.uk/shakespeare/
10. Shakespeare in Criticism
Digital tools for exploring “Shakespeare” in literary criticism
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
http://www.worldshakesbib.org