Shakespeare Quarterly is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 established in 1950 by the Shakespeare Association of America. It is now under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...

. Along with book and performance criticism, Shakespeare Quarterly incorporates scholarly research and essays on Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 and the age in which he worked. It also includes a special section devoted to the latest ideas in Shakespeare scholarship.

As a companion, the Folger Library also publishes the reference database World Shakespeare Bibliography Online, which contains more than 125,000 annotated bibliographical references and several hundred thousand reviews.

The editor of Shakespeare Quarterly is David Schalkwyk (Folger Library). The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is edited by James L. Harner (Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

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See also

• Shakespeare's plays
  Shakespeare's plays
  William Shakespeare's plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the 37 plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being...
  
  
• English Renaissance theatre
  English Renaissance theatre
  English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642...
  
  
• Shakespeare on screen
  Shakespeare on screen
  More than 420 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeares plays have been produced, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language...
  
  

External links

• Folger Shakespeare Library.
• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
• Shakespeare Quarterly at Project MUSE
  Project MUSE
  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...