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.
October
- Boguszak, Jakub. The self-centred art: Ben Jonson's parts in performance. Routledge, 2021.
PR 2638
- Cetera-Wlodarczyk, Anna. 'Professor Henryk Zbierski (1925-2025): a scholar from behind the curtain'. From: Literraria Copernicana, 1-2(51), 2025.
pPR 2972.Z3
- Chapman, Matthieu. Shakespeare and antiblack world-making. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
PR 3069.R2
- Fazio, Hannah. Arts-based research in theatre and performance. Routledge, 2025.
PN 2075
- Greenblatt, Stephen. Dark Renaissance: the dangerous times and fatal genius of Shakespeare's greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe. Bodley Head, 2025.
PR 2673
- Hainsworth, Christine and Jonathan. The Shakespeare Ladies Club: the forgotten women who rescued the bawdy bard. Amberley, 2025.
PR 2888.S43
- Hooke, Jacob. Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: the library of a seventeeth-century actor. Edited by David Roberts. Society for Theatre Research, 2013.
Z 997.B488
- Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish tragedy. Edited by J.R. Mulryne with introduction and notes by Andrew Gurr. (New mermaids). Methuen, 2009.
PR 2654.S6-2009
- Digangi, Mario. Shakespeare and queer studies. (Oxford Shakespeare topics). Oxford University Press, 2025.
PR 3069.S45
- Ozanne, Christine. Shakespeare's 'method' for actors: as revealed in the First Folio 1623. Routledge, 2025.
PR 3091
- Pirri, Caro. Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England: stages of unsettlement. Oxford University Press, 2025.
PR 658.A54
- Shakespeare and wisdom: ecumenical, ecological and ethical horizons. Edited by Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
PR 3007
- Sheeha, Iman. Neighbourly relationships in early modern drama: staged communities. Routledge, 2025.
PR 658.N45
- Tambling, Kirsten. Shakespearean objects in the Royal Collection, 1714-1939: from national treasure to family heirloom. Oxford University Press, 2025.
PR 2933.R6
- Walter, Harriet. She speaks! What Shakespeare's women might have said. Virago, 2024.
Long Loan PR 2991
- Women in Academia Support Network (WIASN). ResearcHER: the power and potential of research careers for women. Emerald Publishing, 2022.
LB 2332.3