Library

The Globe Library holds texts and criticism of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as twentieth-century and current works on the Globe, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, theatre history and social and cultural history of early modern England. The library collections are searchable online on Ariel.

Archives

Archives at the Globe include:

• The performance archive: Recordings, prompt books, wardrobe bibles, and a range of reviews and ephemera from Globe productions since 1996.
• The costume archive: A selection of costumes created by Jenny Tiramani for the Globe's original practices productions, using carefully researched and reproduced Elizabethan techniques.
• The institutional archive: Correspondence, administrative papers and photographs documenting the decades of planning, persistence, and enthusiasm that led to the reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe as a fully functioning performance space.

For more information on the productions for which resources are held, please see the downloadable PDFs above right. For information on the specific resources available for a particular production, please email the library or browse our library catalogue. 

Please note that special arrangements are in place for access to and quotation from the deposited collections.