Print Sources:

Reference

Call Number	Title
Ref.	The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography...
PR2894
.C35
Ref.	Shakespeare on Screen
PR3093
.R68
Ref.	The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
PR2892
.O94
Ref.	Concordance to Shakespeare
PR2892
.B34

 

Finding other books:

Remember that "Shakespeare" itself is a subject word and that you can search by that.

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Finding Database Articles:

• JSTOR is a full-text database containing scholarly articles. You will not be able to search the most recent years of the journals; but they will go back to the earliest volumes. This can be a great place to get a history of scholarship.
• MLA indexes articles about literature, languages, linguistics, folklore and related topics.
• Project Muse is a full text database that contains recent articles published in the humanities, arts, and social sciences disciplines.
• Lexis-Nexis is a great place to look for theater and movie reviews. Click on "Guided News Search" and then select "Arts & Sports News" in the first box, and "Play, book, and movie reviews" in the second. You may also choose a time period in which to search (It can be very helpful to choose the largest search time.
• Academic Search Premier indexes popular and scholarly periodicals in a variety of subject areas across disciplines from the sciences, humanities, current events, and fine arts.

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Helpful Webpages:

The New York Times has archived book, movie, and play reviews for varying periods. You will have to create a (free) user account to look these newspaper articles up. To search reviews, click on "movies" or "theater" on the left side of the home page. Then, use the search box at the top of the screen to search for reviews of King Lear.

 

The Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is an annotated guide to different Shakespeare resources on the internet.

 

Try out this Shakespeare Concordance to track the times and ways that Shakespeare used different words and phrases throughout his plays.

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