Most of the books at the library are reference only. This ensures that all items are available to library users unless actively being used by another reader on the premises.
There is a small long loan collection for books that support the MA courses run by the Shakespeare Institute. All University of Birmingham students and staff can borrow books from the long loan collection.
The University of Birmingham online catalogue, FindIt@Bham, can be used to search the library’s book collection. See Searching the library for more information about the online catalogues available.
We also provide:
- e-books
- Online journals
- Periodicals
- Theses and dissertations
- Newspaper cuttings dating from 1902 to 2022
New arrivals
Newly arrived books and DVDs at the Shakespeare Institute Library are listed below. We will update the list regularly when new books arrive and have been processed.
January
- Bennett, Kristen Abbott. Teaching Shakespeare's theatre of the world. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
PR 2987
- Chiari, Sophie. Shakespeare's ecology of natural resources: transitions and transformations. Arden Shakespeare, 2026.
PR 3039
- Ducis, Jean-François. Hamlet: an eighteenth-century French adaptation. Edited by Joseph Harris. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2024.
PR 2878.H3
- Ehsen, Zakia Resshid. Shakespeare in Pakistan: appropriating the bard in theatres, cinema and academia. Routledge, 2026.
PR 2971.P35
- Gruber, Elizabeth D. The eco-self in early modern English literature. Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
PR 428.S4
- Lennox, Patricia. Performing visible pregnancy in Shakespeare's plays. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
PR 2991
- Makaryk, Irena R. Shakespeare in Ukraine: mirror, prism, megaphone. University of Toronto Press, 2025.
PR 3109.U4
- McAdam, Ian. Marlowe, Shakespeare, and religious toleration. University of Toronto Press, 2025.
PR 2958.M3
- Pellone, Elena M. Directorless Shakespeare: transformations through collective embodied literary criticism. Routledge, 2026.
PR 3091
- Revenge is mad hard: Fat Ham and the question of cultural reclamation. Edited by Valerie Clayman Pye and Danielle Rosvally. Springer Nature, 2025.
PR 2807
- The Routledge companion to Shakespeare and religion. Edited by Will Stockton. Routledge, 2026.
PR 3011
- Translating Shakespeare: access and mediation. Duncan Lees, Liz Oakley-Brown: editors. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
PR 2881
- Vine, Angus. Early modern merchants and their books. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Z 988
- Vine, Angus. In defiance of time: antiquarian writing in early modern England. Oxford University Press, 2010.
PR 418.H5