Welcome to Shakespeare's Globe Archive Catalogue
The living record of your memory (Sonnet 55)
Our online catalogue contains descriptions of the archives in our collections.
A small number of catalogue records also contain access to digital copies of records. Read more about our Collections
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Researchers should note that this archive catalogue facilitates access not just to the records of the Shakespeare Globe Trust, but to the staging of works from the Early Modern corpus. These can describe (for example) race, gender, class, sexual orientation or disability, in ways which reflect the period in which they were created, and thus be inappropriate or offensive. We encourage researchers to alert staff with specific concerns, to help us care for future users as well as archives.
NEW! You can now explore themes of gender, disability, race and queerness in our archive collections using our new research guides:
Published alongside the four research guides is a Timeline cross-referenced to them as well as a prose, 'screen-reader friendly', version:
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