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.
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.
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Archer, Dawn, Alison Findlay and Sean Murphy. The Arden encylopedia of Shakespeare's language: plays and characters. Bloomsbury, 2025.
PR 3077
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Atrocity and early modern drama. Edited by Sarah E. Johnson and Georgina Lucas. Bloomsbury, 2025.
PR 658.V55
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The bard in the borderlands: an anthology of Shakespeare appropriations en La Frontera. Volume 2. Edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos and Kathryn Vomero Santos. Arizona State University Press, 2024.
PR 2877
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Beale, Simon Russell. A piece of work: playing Shakespeare and other stories. Abacus Books, 2024.
PN 2598.B283
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Contemporary readings in global performances of Shakespeare. Edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. Bloomsbury, 2024.
PR 3100
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Ford, John. The Queen, or the excellency of her sex. Edited by Lisa Hopkins. (Revels plays). Manchester University Press, 2025.
PR 2524.Q4
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Global King Lear: crisis, performance, adaptations. Edited by William R. Rampone, Jr. and Eric S. Mallin. Bloomsbury, 2023.
PR 2819
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Heywood, Thomas. Dick of Devonshire. Edited by Kate Ellis. (Revels plays). Manchester University Press, 2024.
PR 2574.D5-2024
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Hopkins, Lisa. The edge of Christendom on the early modern stage. De Gruyter, 2022.
PR 658.R43
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How to read and understand Shakespeare. (The great courses). The Teaching Company, 2013. 4 DVDs.
DVD
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Hunter, Lynette. Humanism, capitalism, and rhetoric in early modern England: the separation of the citizen from the self. De Gruyter, 2022.
B 778
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Johnson, Bonnie Lander. Botanical culture and popular belief in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
PR 3041
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Kimura, Asuka. Performing widowhood on the early modern English stage. De Gruyter, 2023.
PR 658.W53
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Knapp, Jeffrey. Shakespeare high and low: character, audience, career. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
PR 2976
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Ladegaard, Jakob and Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan. The Arden encyclopedia of Shakespeare's language: character networks. Bloomsbury, 2025.
PR 2989
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Masculinities and representation: the eroticized male in early modern Italy and England. Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
HQ 1090
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Miss Ellen Terry. Postcard with photograph of Ellen Terry, postmarked June 20 '07, addressed to Miss Norah Birch with a message in an unidentified shorthand.
rp PN 2598.T3
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Shakespeare: the word and the action. (The great courses). The Teaching Company, 1995. 4 DVDs.
DVD
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Shakespeare's tragedies. (The great courses). The Teaching Company, 2007. 4 DVDs.
DVD
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Stevens, B. The uncanny empathy: exploring Richard III through the lens of Stanislavski and the challenges of embodying a psychopath. (Dissertation, MA in Shakespeare and Theatre, 2024).
Diss.SI2024.MA
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Strong, David. The bond of empathy in medieval and early modern literature. De Gruyter, 2022.
PR 149.S95
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Vickers, Brian. Thomas Kyd: a dramatist restored. Princeton University Press, 2024.
PR 2657
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William Shakespeare: comedies, histories, and tragedies. (The great courses). The Teaching Company, 1999. 18 CDs.
CD Coll / A-MISC
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Wyspiański, Stanisław. The Hamlet study and The death of Ophelia. Translated from the Polish by Barbara Bogoczek and Tony Howard. Shakespeare’s Globe, 2019.
PR 2807