Shakespeare
A research guide: books, articles, web sites, & videos
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Reference Books—A Selection
Reference
books provide a good starting point for your research. Reference items are
located in the Library’s Reference collection, behind the Reference Desk on the
top floor of Spangler.
See also these
related research guides Epic & Classical Literature, English Literature and
Literary Analysis, Poetry, and Mythology/Folklore/Legend.
Bibliographies
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Classified Shakespeare Bibliography, 1936-1958. R 016.82233 S648
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The Major Shakespeare Tragedies: A
Critical Bibliography. R 016.82233 Q7, 1973
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Shakespeare: A Bibliographical
Guide. R 016.8223 W456s, 1990
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Shakespeare and the Classical
Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960.
R 016.8223 S527V
Concordances
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A Concordance to Shakespeare's
Poems. R 822.335 F988c, 1902
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The Harvard Concordance to
Shakespeare. R 822.335 H339h, 1973
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The Home Book of Shakespeare
Quotations. R 822.33 S947
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An Index to the Works of
Shakespeare. R 822.33 A606
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Oxford Shakespeare Concordances
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Julius Caesar: A Concordance to the
Text of the First Folio. R 822.335 O98Ju
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King Lear: A Concordance to the Text
of the First Folio. R 822.335 O98Ki
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Macbeth: A Concordance to the Text
of the First Folio. R 833.335 O98Ma
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Othello: A Concordance to the Text
of the First Folio. R 833.335 O98Ot
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Timon of Athens: A Concordance to
the Text of the First Folio. R 833.335 O98Ti
Dictionaries
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Literary Terms. R 803 B177c
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A Dictionary of the Characters &
Proper Names in the Works of Shakespeare.
R 822.33 S874di, 1970
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Larousse Dictionary of Literary
Characters. R 809.927 L332g
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Narrative and Dramatic Sources of
Shakespeare. R 822.33
B938 vols.1-5
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A Pronouncing Dictionary of
Shakespearean Proper Names. R 822.33
A6I
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The Quotable Shakespeare: A Topical
Dictionary. R 822.33 D527q,
1988
Encyclopedias
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All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of
Shakespeare’s World. R 822.33 O82a 2 vols.
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The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An
Introduction with Documents. R 822.33 M1458b
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The Oxford
Companion to Shakespeare. R 822.33 O98c
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Pronouncing
Shakespeare’s Words: A Guide from A to Zounds. R 822.33 C8398p
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The
Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. R 822.33 R2273
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The
Renaissance. Volume 2. R 820.9 B346li
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The Riverside
Shakespeare. R 822.33 S156r
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Shakespeare:
A to Z. R 822.33 B789sh,
1990
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A
Shakespeare Companion, 1550 – 1950. R 822.33 H188
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Shakespeare’s
Playhouse Practice: A Handbook. R 822.33
S663s, 1975
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Who’s Who in Shakespeare. R 822.33
W34w
Note: Many readings on Shakespeare’s plays are also
available. These can be found in the Main Stacks
Reference Resources Online
Provides
full-text access to many reference resources online, including:
- Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature;
- Beacham's six-volume Research Guide to
Biography and Criticism;
- Continuum’s encyclopedia’s of American, British,
and children’s literature;
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics
and The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story;
- The Oxford Illustrated History of English
Literature; The Literary
Encyclopedia;
- Masterplots and Masterplots
II;Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia
of Literary Characters, and Magill's
Literary Annual;
- The Harold Bloom series of over 500 books; and
additional resources of information on notable
authors of long and short fiction, poetry, drama, and philosophy.
Oxford
English Dictionary
Offers access to the online, historical dictionary of the English language. Updated
quarterly.
Full-text dictionaries
and other reference books in one searchable database. Includes A Dictionary of Shakespeare and The
To access: From the library
homepage, click on Books, and select Oxford Reference Online.
Primary Literature Full-text Online
Editions
and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Full-text. Includes 11 major editions of Shakespeare's works, and related
works.
To access: Library homepage > Articles in Databases > English
Language and Literature—Drama
English
Poetry
Full-text. Assembles over 160,000 poems
by 1,350 poets written in English from 600 to 1900.
To access: Library homepage > Articles in Databases
> English Language and Literature—Drama
English
Prose Drama
Full-text. Includes over 1,800 plays
written in prose for the stage from the Renaissance to the end of the
19th century.
To access: Library homepage > Articles in Databases
> English Language and Literature—Drama
English
Verse Drama
Full-text. Contains more than 2,200
works of poetry intended for the stage from 1400 to 1900.
To access: Library homepage > Articles in Databases
> English Language and Literature—Drama
Library
Quick Reference
Links to several online resources for primary literature, including The
Complete Works of Shakespeare.
To access: Library homepage > Quick Reference >
Etexts—Literature
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Use an online
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databases below, from the Library’s Articles in Databases page, select the English Language
& Literature category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of
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Recommended Databases
Academic Search Complete
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including arts and literature. Updated daily.
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Citations only. Indexes
books, articles, reviews, essays, and critical editions of literary works in
English studies. British, American, and
Commonwealth writing are all represented.
Film
& Television Literature Index
Covers the literature about television and film writing, and
provides indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications and selected
coverage of 300 more. Subject coverage includes film & television theory,
preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical
aspects, and reviews.
International
Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
IBTD is a multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool for
theater students, educators and professionals in a fully indexed,
cross-referenced and annotated databank of journal articles, books, and
dissertation abstracts on all aspects of drama, theatre, film and performance
in 126 countries.
Literary
Reference Center
Offers information on authors and their
works from reference works, books, and literary journals. Includes plot summaries, synopses and
work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text
of literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and
contemporary short stories, classic novels; and
author interviews.
MLA
International Bibliography
Citations only. Catalogs
books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and
linguistics. Information about the
libraries that own the library resources is also included. Updated 10 times per year.
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below are web sites that may be of particular use to you in your information
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Web Sites—A Selection
See also these
related research guides: Epic & Classical Literature, English Literature
and Literary Analysis, Poetry, and Mythology/Folklore/Legend.
Shakespeare Web Sites
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British and Irish Authors on the Web: William Shakespeare [texts,
concordance, glossaries] http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Shakespeare.html
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The Cambridge History of English
and American Literature: Volume 5: The Drama to 1642. http://www.bartleby.com/215/index.html#8
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
(chronology, notes to works) http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/default.htm
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The Perseus Project: English Renaissance http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?collection=Renaissance
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Phrases from
Shakespeare http:/www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html
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Project
Guttenberg [electronic texts] http://promo.net/pg
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Royal Shakespeare
Company http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx
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The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust Website http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/homepage
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Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre http://www.shakespeares-globe.org
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Studies in English Literature
1500-1900 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sel
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