Book collections

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.​

November

• Djordjevic, Igor. Remembering, replaying and rereading Henry VIII: the courtier's Henry. Routledge, 2024.
  PR 2817

• The ecology of dress in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Edited by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
  PR 658.C637

• Fleck, Andrew. English national identity and the image of the Dutch. Springer, 2024.
  PR 428.D8

• Ford, John. 'Tis pity she's a whore. Edited by Martin White. (Revels). Manchester University Press, 2024.
  PR 2524.T5-2024

• Fripp, Edgar I. Shakespeare's Stratford. Oxford University Press, 1928; reprinted: Read Books, 2013.
  PR 2916

• Gordon, Colby. Glorious bodies: trans theology and Renaissance literature. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
  PR 418.T75

• Grant, Teresa. Apes and monkeys on the early modern stage, 1603-1659. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
  PR 658.A64

• Historicizing the embodied imagination in early modern English literature. Edited by Mark Kaethler and Grant Williams. Springer, 2024.
  PR 428.I42

• Hobgood, Allison P. Beholding disability in Renaissance England. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
  PR 418.D54

• An introduction to Shakespeare drama. Edited by Danni Dai. Wuhan University Press, 2021.
  PR 2976

• Jones, Mike Rodman. Literature and medievalism in early modern England: strange histories. D.S. Brewer, 2024.
  PR 428.M53

• Mirčev, Andrej. The poetics of performance diagrams. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  PN 2071.M6

• Moralizing the Italian marvellous in early modern England. Edited by Beatrice Fuga and Alessandra Petrina. Routledge, 2024.
  PQ 4050.E5

• Publicover, Laurence. Fathoming the deep in English Renaissance tragedy: horror, mystery, and the oceanic sublime. Oxford University Press, 2024.
  PR 658.S33

• Renaissance papers 2023. Editors: Lisandra Estevez and Jim Pearce. Camden House, 2024.
  PN 715

• Shakespeare, William. [The collected works]. Translated by Dusan Mrdenovic. In Serbian. Institute for Textbooks, 2011.
  PR 2795.S6

• Shakespeare drama and western society. Edited by Danni Dai. Wuhan University Press, 2021.
  PR 2976

• Shakespeare's classical mythology: a dictionary. Edited by Janice Valls-Russell and Katherine Heavey. Bloomsbury, 2024.
  PR 2953.C5

• Shirley, James. The complete works of James Shirley. Volume 7. Edited by Eugene Giddens and Teresa Grant. Oxford University Press, 2022.
  PR 3140-2022

• Sinha Roy, Mallarika. Utpal Dutt and political theatre in postcolonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  PN 2888.D38

• Solga, Kim. Women making Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  PR 3100

• Weidle, Roland. A comprehensive guide to Shakespeare's sonnets. Bloomsbury, 2024.
  PR 2848

• Williams, Deanne. Girl culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: performance and pedagogy. Bloomsbury, 2023.
  PN 2590.W6

• Xianzu, Tang. The peony pavilion. Translated with an introduction by Huang Bikang.
  PL 2695.M8

• Zucker, Adam. Shakespeare unlearned: pedantry, nonsense, and the philology of stupidity. Oxford University Press, 2024.
  PR 658.S68