Use these databases to find film, tv and radio adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a collection of TV and radio programmes from free-to-air channels. Set new recordings and playback programmes already recorded. Content back to 1990s.
Digital Theatre + provides access to a host of sources related to theatre productions, from acting and actor training to design and technical theatre. They have over 600 full length productions, over 800 video resources and 21,000 plus pages of written content, covering multiple forms of and genres of theatre.
Access to thousands of films for the arts & humanities.
References to published materials in the arts and humanities including journal articles, letters, editorials and reviews.
This database is part of the Web of Science Core Collection. To search just this part select 'Arts & Humanities Citation Index' from the 'Editions' drop down list.
Introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, classics, religion and cultural studies.
Historical summaries covering a range of topics primarily in the humanities.
Digital Theatre + provides access to a host of sources related to theatre productions, from acting and actor training to design and technical theatre. They have over 600 full length productions, over 800 video resources and 21,000 plus pages of written content, covering multiple forms of and genres of theatre.
Plays and supporting critical and contextual material relating to works from the classical era to the present day. The collection features the theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber, as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center. Also available are plays, screen plays and theatrebooks from Nick Hern Books; Playwrights Canada Press, a collection of plays by emerging and established Canadian playwrights; plays from the Oberon Books collection; Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Videos covering key plays and acting techniques; and the National Theatre collection, containing 30 filmed performances from the venue.
Google Scholar is the academic version of Google. It allows you to search for scholarly literature (journal articles, books, patents) from a variety of sources, including academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories.
References to publications covering literature, language, linguistics and folklore worldwide.
Access to articles in over 500 journal titles in arts, humanities and social sciences.
Gives references, and some full-text access, to sources relating to film and television.
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production providing full-text access to articles and features, images and production photographs from 1948 to the present. Each volume covers a selected theme, specific play or group of plays, as well as reviews of reviews of textual and critical studies, and the major British performances for the year.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a collection of TV and radio programmes from free-to-air channels. Set new recordings and playback programmes already recorded. Content back to 1990s.
A freely available database of over 50,000 sound recordings from the British Library Sound Archive.
Digital Theatre + provides access to a host of sources related to theatre productions, from acting and actor training to design and technical theatre. They have over 600 full length productions, over 800 video resources and 21,000 plus pages of written content, covering multiple forms of and genres of theatre.
Plays and supporting critical and contextual material relating to works from the classical era to the present day. The collection features the theatre lists of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber, as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center. Also available are plays, screen plays and theatrebooks from Nick Hern Books; Playwrights Canada Press, a collection of plays by emerging and established Canadian playwrights; plays from the Oberon Books collection; Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Videos covering key plays and acting techniques; and the National Theatre collection, containing 30 filmed performances from the venue.
Access to thousands of films for the arts & humanities.
Listings of UK television and radio programmes including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television (with regional variations), all national and many local radio stations since 1995.
Listings of the London Edition of the TVTimes.
If you want to find images, audio or video to help with your teaching, learning or research some of the following resources may be of use - many of them include material specially licensed for educational use in Higher Education, others are freely available websites and collections and some provide details of content which may be available to purchase or find in other libraries / archives.
See our guide to image and sound resources for details of specialist sources for finding this type of information.