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The ¶¶ÒõMAX Media Center holds over 100 Shakespeare film adaptations on DVD, and many more on VHS. In 2009, the College Archives scanned nearly three hundred 19th-century illustrations from the Farnsworth Shakespeare Print Collection, all of which are available for viewing online. In addition to hundreds of scholarly studies in the stacks (scan the call numbers PR2800-PR3000), Barret Library subscribes to many online databases and  useful in the study of Shakespeare, including:

•  - illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain′s past.
•  - digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.
•  - online edition of the OED, the historical dictionary of the English language, with numerous citations from Shakespeare′s works.
•  -database of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1962.

Additional online resources include:

•  â€“ a project to which ¶¶ÒõMAX Professor Vanessa Rogers contributes
• The Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation
•  (BBAS)
•  - Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
•  - Database of Early English Playbooks
• (freely available)
• (University of Michigan)
• : Early Modern Literary Studies; they also provide a detailed  of Renaissance texts available online, and additional 
•  (ESTC)
•  - Pick a text and pick a passage. Instantly see articles and chapters quoting that passage.
• King Lear Quarto vs. Folio 
• (UMASS-Amherst)
•  - Lexicons of Early Modern English
•  - including the  video & performance archive and Hamlet on the Ramparts
• — Digital Resources
• The  - Dean Michael Leslie is one of the editors
•  â€“ searchable database for prompt books
• — Online Resources
• - The Shakespeare Association of America
• Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
• - A website devoted to historic editions of Shakespeare, &c.
• The 
•  (Shakespearean list-serv)
•  - T. W. Baldwin′s 1944 study
• Staging the Henrican Court
• Touchstone - a tool for Shakespeare research in the United Kingdom