Research guides
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Research guides have been built 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.
Research guides
Annotated book lists
General
- Annotated bibliography of African-American Shakespeareana
- Annotated bibliography of Americana
- Bibliography of materials related to the Bindings Image Collection
Exhibitions at the Folger
- Bibliography of readings related to Beyond Home Remedy: Women, Medicine, and Science
- Bibliography of readings related to Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland
- Annotated bibliography of readings related to David Garrick
- 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 "Golden Lads & Lasses": Shakespeare for Children
Folger Institute
- Bibliographies and syllabi from Folger Institute seminars
- Bibliography of Cervantes titles and materials at the Folger
- Bibliography of fishing and angling materials at the Folger
- Bibliography for Habits of Reading in Early Modern England
Other lists
- List of cataloging articles
- List of deaccessioned paintings
- List of Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization
- List of keyword search fields in Hamnet and their associated MARC codes
- List of paintings at the Folger in the Pressly Catalogue
- List of reference sources of use in cataloging
- List of Shakespeare Tercentenary of 1864 scrapbooks
- List of Shakespeare's works
- List of Sh.Col. call numbers
Early modern
Digital Folger
- Alphabetical list of digital resources at the Folger
- Digital editions of English Renaissance drama
- Digital resources at the Folger
- List of card catalogs
- List of digitized Folger promptbooks
- Digitized manuscripts
- List of Folger Institute resources
- List of Folgerpedia templates
- List of online resources for early modern English paleography
- Searching Folger resources
- Template for research guide articles
Shakespeare and performance
- Augustin Daly
- 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
- 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)
- Promptbooks
- Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
- 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