Since Trexler Library holds about 40 shelves packed full of works by and about Shakespeare, to actually locate the individual title you are looking for will require more numbers… namely, Cutter numbers (i.e. the line after the Dewey number, beginning with a letter.)
The amount of scholarly work about Shakespeare is so great that we have chosen to “double Cutter” within this class, so there will commonly be 2 lines below the 822.33 Dewey number.
An example follows:
Title: Shakespeare without women : representing gender and race by Dympna Callaghan.
Dewey number 822.33 = ‘Shakespeare’
First Cutter A42 = Subject: Relationships / gender / sexuality / race
Second Cutter C156s = Author: Callaghan (C156) + first letter of title (s)
The first Cutter number is either:
The second Cutter number then reflects the author and/or title of the individual book, and works more or less the same as other Cutter numbers in the Library.
Note that in general books should NOT be cuttered on "Shakespeare" (S527) either as author or as a title. In the first case, the Dewey number 822.33 already means "Shakespeare", so the cutter would be redundant. In the second case, there are way too many books on the bard with the title beginning "Shakespeare and..." which would get us right back to a problem with making the book numbers unique.