RSC related websites

Our archive is held at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. You can visit the Library and Archives there to look at production related information, including photos, videos of shows and stage management documents:

• Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive homepage

You can search the RSC catalogue here:

• RSC performance database

For further reading lists, synopses and more information about each of the plays, visit the RSC Shakespeare editions website:

• RSC Shakespeare website

Other websites

The BBC's series on Shakespeare in collaboration with the RSC:

• Shakespeare Unlocked

The Bodleian's Library have digitised their edition of Shakespeare's First Folio so you can see the play in the 1623 form:

• Bodleian Library's digitised first folio

Explore the leading American Shakespeare Library, their digital image collection and their digital text project:

• The Folger Shakespeare Library

• The Folger's Digital Image Collection

• Folger Digital Texts

You can search the whole of Shakespeare's plays for quotes or specific words on Rhymezone:

• Search Shakespeare's plays

For more advanced searching of Shakespeare's plays, look at Open Source Shakespeare:

• Open Source Shakespeare

For a humorous summary of Henry IV Part I and other plays, try Good Tickle-Brain

• Good Tickle-Brain

Hear the BBC My Own Shakespeare Podcast by Jools Holland which features a passage from Henry IV Part I

• Jools Holland on Henry IV

Discover more about the real Henry IV and the Battle of Shrewsbury:

• BBC History

• The Battlefields Trust

• Discover 10 things you might not know about Henry IV