The Shakespeare Society of America
Example of Library
"Me, Poor Man, My Library was Dukedom Large Enough" The Tempest     
The SSA Collection includes over 3,000 books, pamphlets
and research materials. Books number approximately:
  25 from the 1500-1600s
  100 from the 1700s,
  400 from the 1800s,
  and over a thousand from the 1900s.
 
 
 
 
 

Books and Supplementary materials include hundreds of pamphlets, publications, plays, research and educational materials covering topics on:

Shakespeare's Life and Times

Shakespeare's Characters

Shakespeare in Art and Music

Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets

Influences During the Time of Shakespeare

Elizabethan Theatre and History

Elizabethan Life, Times & Influences

Works of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlow and other Contemporaries

The Shakespeare Authorship Question

General Research and Early Shakespeareana

40+ Sets of the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Critical Analysis of Shakespeare's Life, Plays & Sonnets

Shakespeare's Influence on Literature, Arts, History and Science

Influence of Shakespeare on the World Today

SSA's plans include digitizing, within the copyright laws, as many of these important resources as possible for use by Shakespearean scholars, actors, students and the general public.  Based on funding opportunities , the SSA plans to expand access to the collection by way of mobile library portals.

Your support through a membership and/or donation is invaluable in order to make this vision a reality!

The SSA welcomes sponsorship opportunities.  Please contact us for additional information regarding the rare book and research collection.

 

 

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