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Library Catalog

The library catalog searches the library collection and the databases.

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Search Tips

When searching the library catalog, you can search the catalog by author, title, or subject (see subjects headings for potential subject searches).

Notable Items

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare edited by Dympna Callaghan 822.33 Sh1D F329c

The First Folio of Shakespeare 822.33 Sh1I S527f

Shakespeare Survey - An annual survey of Shakespearian study and production.  822.33 Sh1D S527s 

Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntington Library 822.33 Sh1I S527s

Browsing Areas

Fun fact: Shakespeare is the only author who has his own Dewey Decimal classification!  Shakespeare's call numbers are in the following format:  822.33 Sh1D ("D" representing the classification from the table listed below).

Browsing Area 822.33 Sh1_

A - Authorship controversies

B - Biography

D - Critical appraisal (critical appraisal of individual works cataloged in O-Z)

E - Textual criticism (textual criticism of individual works cataloged in O-Z)

F - Sources, allusions, learning

G - Societies, concordances, miscellany

H - Quotations, condensations, adaptations

I - Complete works in English without notes

J - Complete works in English with notes

K - Complete works in translation

L - Partial collections in English without notes

M - Partial collections in English with notes

N - Partial collections in translation

O-R -  Comedies

O1-2 - All's well that ends well

O3-4 - As you like it

O5-6 - The comedy of errors

O7-8 - Love's labour's lost

P1-2 - Measure for measure

P3-4 - The merchant of Venice

P5-6 - The merry wives of Windsor

P7-8 - A midsummer night's dream

Q1-2 - Much ado about nothing

Q3-4 - The taming of the shrew

Q5-6 - The tempest

Q7-8 - Twelfth night

R1-2 - The two gentlemen of Verona

R3-4 - The winter's tale

S-V - Tragedies

S1-2 - Antony and Cleopatra

S3-4 - Coriolanus

S5-6 - Cymbeline

S7-8 - Hamlet

T1-2 - Julius Caesar

T3-4 - King Lear

T5-6 - Macbeth

T7-8 - Othello

U1-2 - Pericles

U3-4 - Romeo and Juliet

U5-6 - Timon of Athens

U7-8 - Titus Andronicus

V1-2 - Troilus and Cressida

W-X - Histories

W1-2 - Henry IV, parts 1-2

W3-4 - Henry V

W5-6 - Henry VI, parts 1-3

W7-8 - Henry VIII

X1-2 King John

X3-4 - Richard II

X5-6 - Richard III

Y - Poems

Y1-2 - General works

Y3-4 - Venus and Adonis

Y5-6 - The rape of Lucrece

Y7-8 - Sonnets

Z - Spurious and doubtful works