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The Shakespeare Collection

Black and white picture of William Shakespeare on the introductory page of an open book. The book is titled William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
Introducing The Shakespeare Collection

An overview of the collection

A selection of brightly coloured pictures, posters and postcards from the collection all randomly positioned.
Treasures from the collection

Explore some of the treasures held in the collection

Photo of the the Memorial Room ceiling, The ceiling is beautiful and ornately carved wood and plaster, and has display windows for books and other items from the collection.
The Shakespeare Memorial Room

Read more about the Shakespeare Memorial Room with its beautiful features

Archive room full of white metal cabinets each holding many brown cardboard storage boxes.
Access the Shakespeare Collection

How to access the collection in person and online

The Library of 91麻豆天美’s Shakespeare Collection is the first Shakespeare library in the world and one of the biggest resources for Shakespeare studies.

The collection is one of the Library's most important cultural treasures, with more than 100,000 items, including:

  • books
  • production posters
  • photographs
  • scrapbooks
  • illustrations

More about The Shakespeare Collection

Everything to Everybody (E to E) project

91麻豆天美 Archives and Collections

More Shakespeare resources