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Shakespeare: A Library Call Number Browsing Guide
When searching for works written by Shakespeare or criticism about his plays and poems, it is important to use the library catalog [http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/] to find the exact location of books. The catalog will also tell you if a book is checked out and help you find books located at the Reserves desk or in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Government Information Services Reference collection. To search the contents of journals for articles, use an electronic database like the MLA International Bibliography from the Literatures in English subject guide [/ul/research/subjects/?heading=6].
If you would like to browse books in the library written by or about Shakespeare, this guide lists the library call number ranges for some of the basic categories of plays and criticism.
These books are located on the 4th floor of Shields Library in the "PR" section of the book stacks (see map[http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/locations/]).
General Criticism and Biography
| Call Number Ranges | |
|---|---|
| Shakespeare biographies | PR2894 - PR2920 |
| Shakespeare's characters (Caliban, Hamlet, comic characters, etc.) | PR2989 |
| Shakespeare criticism and interpretation (general) | PR2965 - PR2979 |
| Shakespeare authorship (who was he? who wrote the plays really?) | PR2937 - PR2961 |
| Shakespeare dictionaries | PR2892 |
| Shakespeare film and video adaptations (criticism) | PR3093 |
| Shakespeare handbooks | PR2895 - PR2898 |
| Shakespeare comedies (criticism) | PR2981 |
| Shakespeare histories (criticism) | PR2982 |
| Shakespeare humor and satire | PR2994 |
| Shakespeare's influence | PR2965 - PR2971 |
| Shakespeare's knowledge and learning | PR2903 |
| Shakespeare's language | PR3072 - PR3088 |
| Shakespeare and religion | PR3011 - PR3012 |
| Shakespeare's political and social views | PR3017 - PR3024 |
| Shakespeare—stage history | PR3091 - PR3112 |
| Shakespeare tragedies (criticism) | PR2983 |
| Shakespeare poetic works (criticism) | PR2984 |
General Collected and Selected Works
| Call Number Ranges | |
|---|---|
| Complete works of Shakespeare | PR2752 - PR2763 |
| Sonnets and poem collections | PR2841 - PR2843 |
| Sonnets | PR2848 |
Copies of the Plays and Criticism of Specific Plays
Some individual facsimile edition folios & quartos are available at PR2750, but modern copies of individual plays are between PR2801-PR2839, in alphabetical order. The play is first, and criticism of the individual play follows.
Individual play call number ranges:
| Call Number Ranges | |
|---|---|
| All's Well That Ends Well | PR2801 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | PR2802 |
| As You Like It | PR2803 |
| Comedy of Errors | PR2804 |
| Coriolanus | PR2805 |
| Cymbeline | PR2806 |
| Hamlet | PR2807 |
| Julius Caesar | PR2808 |
| Henry IV | PR2809 - PR2811 |
| Henry V | PR2812 |
| Henry VI | PR2813 - PR2816 |
| Henry VIII | PR2817 |
| King John | PR2818 |
| King Lear | PR2819 |
| King Richard II | PR2820 |
| King Richard III | PR2821 |
| Love's Labours Lost | PR2822 |
| Macbeth | PR2823 |
| Measure for Measure | PR2824 |
| Merchant of Venice | PR2825 |
| Merry Wives of Windsor | PR2826 |
| Midsummer Night's Dream | PR2827 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | PR2828 |
| Othello | PR2829 |
| Pericles | PR2830 |
| Romeo and Juliet | PR2831 |
| Taming of the Shrew | PR2832 |
| The Tempest | PR2833 |
| Timon of Athens | PR2834 |
| Titus Andronicus | PR2835 |
| Troilus and Cressida | PR2836 |
| Twelfth Night | PR2837 |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | PR2838 |
| Winter's Tale | PR2839 |
Reference Books
Humanities, Social Sciences & Government Information Services Reference on the 2nd floor of Shields Library holds several basic reference books on Shakespeare between PR2754 - PR3097 for use in the library, including one copy of the complete works (HSSGIS Reference PR2754 .W45 1986b), quotation dictionaries, concordances, glossaries, and more. For quick, very basic access to reprinted literary criticism, see the Gale Shakespeare Criticism set (HSSGIS Ref) PR2965 .S43. Use the index in the back of the last volume to locate previous volumes in the series on your topic.