Shakespeare Studies 

This guide was created by Laurie Murphy, adjunct librarian at NYU

This is a selective guide to some of the many resources available for Shakespeare Studies. This page will be your gateway to books, journal articles, video, and web resources. If you have any problems, just click on the Chat with me link, email me or just stop by my office. I'm here to help!

Here are a few other subject guides that will be of interest to you:

Can you name all the different words in Hamlet's 'To Be Or Not To Be' Soliloquy?

Sporcle games provide mentally stimulating diversions.  Check the site for the many games featuring Shakespeare's plays and test your Shakespearean knowledge!

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Sir Laurence Olivier directed and starred in his 1948 film production of Hamlet

                                                                             photo credit: Ellie Kurttz/RSC

David Tennant in the 2008 production of Hamlet directed by Greg Doran for the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Look for this production to be televised on PBS followed by the DVD release in 2010.

Theatrical performances of Shakespeare's plays are unique and ephemeral experiences for the lucky few in the audience.  However, versions of Shakespeare's plays are often filmed and preserved for posterity either as filmed stage performances or cinematic adaptations of the plays.  The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media located on the second floor of the Bobst Library holds over 28,000 videos including a wide variety of Shakespearean performances and documentaries.  The database, Theatre in Video, contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 documentaries, all in streaming video.  The BBC productions from the 1980's of the whole Shakespearean canon are included, as are documentaries on acting from the Royal Shakespeare Company and a documentary on the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.  Check the “Shakespeare on Film” page in this guide for links to locating Shakespeare's works on film.