Shakespeare Quartos Archive
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive project will reunite all seventy-five pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays into a single online collection with contributions from the world’s leading repositories in the United Kingdom and United States.
The initiative includes development of a user interface and sophisticated digital toolset with research and teaching functions. The prototype for full-functionality will embrace all thirty-two pre-1641 copies of Hamlet held by the participating libraries and result in a technologically advanced interface facilitating close examination and comparison of these internationally significant treasures.
The resource will be freely available to scholars, teachers, students and actors across the globe.
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is funded under the JISC/NEH transatlantic digitisation collaborative grants programme, part of the JISC digitisation programme.
Partner sites: University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library.