Research guides
Research guides are meant to assist researchers with their search for materials in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, to facilitate use of paper and electronic resources available through the institution, and to provide suggestions for further reading and research to users. Research guides should not be confused with Finding aids, which provide hierarchical arrangement and description for manuscript and other archival materials.
Please note some resources have been repeated if they overlap with other topics. For an alphabetical list of all articles categorized under "Research guides" type Category:Research guides into the Folgerpedia search box.
Shakespeare
- Annotated bibliography of African-American Shakespeareana
- Augustin Daly
- Bibliography of readings related to "Golden Lads & Lasses": Shakespeare for Children
- Character lists in manuscript
- Garrick, David, Playbills relating to the theatrical career (Legacy), 1741-1776, 552 items
- List of Boydell Shakespeare Gallery paintings
- List of digitized Folger promptbooks
- List of Resources on Costumes at the Folger
- List of settings for Shakespeare's plays
- List of Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 scrapbooks
- List of Shakespeare's works
- List of Sh.Col. call numbers
- List of Shakespeare reference materials
- Promptbooks
- Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare Quartos at the Folger
- Stratford and Warwickshire References in the Art, Manuscript, and Scrapbook Collections (Legacy), ca. 1560-ca. 1930, 149 manuscripts/scrapbooks spanning the Folger collection
- Winter, William, Robert Young collection relating to, ca. 1745-2005 (bulk 1880-1906), 47 boxes
Performance and theater
- Annotated bibliography of readings related to David Garrick
- Augustin Daly
- Character lists in manuscript
- Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
- Garrick, David, Playbills relating to the theatrical career (Legacy), 1741-1776, 552 items
- Henderson, William, Manuscripts in the Collection of Playbills, etc., ca. 1750-1889 (bulk 1801-1889), approximately 600 items, also see Henderson collection article on Folgerpedia
- Hodges, C. Walter, Collection of Elizabethan and Other Theatre Drawings, 1933-1990, 890 items
- Leo, Friedrich August, 1820-1898. Letters mostly to him from various people (Legacy), 1852-1899, 3 boxes (650 items)
- List of digitized Folger promptbooks
- List of Resources on Costumes at the Folger
- List of settings for Shakespeare's plays
- Promptbooks
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare Quartos at the Folger
- Winter, William, Robert Young collection relating to, ca. 1745-2005 (bulk 1880-1906), 47 boxes
Early modern
- Annotated bibliography of Americana
- Annotated bibliography of Hebraica
- Annotated bibliography of readings related to Open City: London, 1500–1700
- Annotated bibliography of readings related to Shakespeare's Sisters
- Annotated bibliography of readings related to Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History
- Bibliography of readings related to Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science
- Bibliography of readings related to Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland
- Bibliography of readings related to Noyses, Sounds, and Sweet Aires: Music in Early Modern England
- Books from Ben Jonson's library at the Folger
- Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
- Henry Neill Paul
- German Authors, Letters and Papers by (Legacy), 1777-1912, approximately 175 items
- John Lydgate
- List of books owned by Edward Gwynn
- List of Resources on Costumes at the Folger
- Mazarinades
- Promptbooks
- Researching herbals at the Folger
- Stickelberger Reformation collection
- Works of Margherita Costa in the Folger Collection
Manuscripts
- Character lists in manuscript
- Digitized manuscripts
- Finding aids
- Henderson, William, Manuscripts in the Collection of Playbills, etc., ca. 1750-1889 (bulk 1801-1889), approximately 600 items, also see Henderson collection article on Folgerpedia
- Hodges, C. Walter, Collection of Elizabethan and Other Theatre Drawings, 1933-1990, 890 items
- Leo, Friedrich August, 1820-1898. Letters mostly to him from various people (Legacy), 1852-1899, 3 boxes (650 items)
- List of online resources for early modern English paleography
- Manuscript transcription projects
- Promptbooks
- Winter, William, Robert Young collection relating to, ca. 1745-2005 (bulk 1880-1906), 47 boxes
History of the book
- Census of Ben Jonson 1616 folios
- Bibliography for Habits of Reading in Early Modern England
- Bibliography of textual analysis readings
- Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
- Digital humanities readings and resources
- Embroidered bindings
- Glossary of book history terms
- Glossary of digital humanities terms
- Henry Neill Paul
- List of bindings resources
- List of books owned by Edward Gwynn
- List of online resources for early modern English paleography
- Digital tools for textual analysis
- Mazarinades
- Promptbooks
- Researching herbals at the Folger
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare Quartos at the Folger
- Stickelberger Reformation collection
Folger-specific resources
- Alphabetical list of digital resources at the Folger
- Bibliography of materials related to the Bindings Image Collection
- Bibliography of Cervantes titles and materials at the Folger
- Bibliography of fishing and angling materials at the Folger
- Bibliographies and syllabi from Folger Institute seminars
- Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
- Digital resources at the Folger
- Garrick, David, Playbills relating to the theatrical career (Legacy), 1741-1776, 552 items
- German Authors, Letters and Papers by (Legacy), 1777-1912, approximately 175 items
- Glossary of Folger Institute program formats
- Glossary of Folger terminology
- Henderson, William, Manuscripts in the Collection of Playbills, etc., ca. 1750-1889 (bulk 1801-1889), approximately 600 items, also see Henderson collection article on Folgerpedia
- Hodges, C. Walter, Collection of Elizabethan and Other Theatre Drawings, 1933-1990, 890 items
- Leo, Friedrich August, 1820-1898. Letters mostly to him from various people (Legacy), 1852-1899, 3 boxes (650 items)
- List of binders in the Bindings Image Collection
- List of binding terms in the Bindings Image Collection
- List of centuries in the Bindings Image Collection
- List of countries in the Bindings Image Collection
- List of books owned by Edward Gwynn
- List of call number changes
- List of card catalogs
- List of deaccessioned paintings
- List of digitized Folger promptbooks
- List of ESTC books in LUNA
- List of Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization
- List of Folger Institute resources
- List of Folgerpedia templates
- List of nonfiction resources about the Folger
- List of paintings at the Folger in the Pressly Catalogue
- List of reference sources of use in cataloging
- List of Resources on Costumes at the Folger
- List of Sh.Col. call numbers
- List of Shakespeare reference materials
- John Lydgate
- Mazarinades
- Microfilm and microfiche
- Promptbooks
- Researching herbals at the Folger
- Sammelbands
- Searching Folger resources
- Searching in Hamnet
- Stickelberger Reformation collection
- Template for research guide articles
- Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
- Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare Quartos at the Folger
- Stratford and Warwickshire References in the Art, Manuscript, and Scrapbook Collections (Legacy), ca. 1560-ca. 1930, 149 manuscripts/scrapbooks spanning the Folger collection
- Winter, William, Robert Young collection relating to, ca. 1745-2005 (bulk 1880-1906), 47 boxes
- Works of Margherita Costa in the Folger Collection