English Research Guide
Welcome
Welcome to the library research guide on William Shakespeare and his works.
Call Numbers for Books
All books William Shakespeare authored and books about him and his works begin with call numbers 822.33. The bulk of the collection can be found on the 2nd floor, East wing, and the oversized books on the 3rd floor, West wing have a Q. The reference books on the first floor have an R in front of the call number, and your professor may have put a book on reserve by the Help Desk.
Shakespeare Scholarship in JSTOR
Take a look at this JSTOR project that lets you get Shakespeare scholarship line by line.
“Understanding Series is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library . It’s a research tool that allows students, educators and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them—line by line. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.”
Shakespeare at Iona
The Shakespeare Newsletter
The Shakespeare Newsletter is a scholarly journal published three times a year by the English Department at Iona College (https://www.iona.edu/about/iona-in-community/the-shakespeare-newsletter.aspx). SNL began publication in 1951, under the editorship of Louis Marder, and Iona became the publisher of SNL in 1991. Search for it in WorldCat.
- 2,000 subscribers in 37 countries around the globe
- Three issues per year, averaging 40 pages each of news, reviews, abstracts, digests of dissertations and periodical articles
- The Shakespeare Newsletter thrives on contributions from its subscribers. Every issue includes reviews and short critical pieces by a variety of Shakespeareans
Shakespeare Courses
English 301 Comedy & History
English 302 Tragedy & Romance
English 310 Shakespeare on Film
English 711 Studies in Shakespeare
English 712 Further Studies in Shakespeare
FPA 207 Shakespeare in Performance (summer session)
Open Source Shakespeare
Open Source Shakespeare is a non-commercial website allowing free access to searchable digital versions of the complete works of William Shakespeare. You can find it by searching "Open Source Shakespeare" on Google or Bing.
Literature & Language Databases
- Dartmouth Dante ProjectThe Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Ebooks, pamphlets, essays, broadsides published in the UK during the 18th century. - MLA International Bibliography via EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics dating back to 1925 and containing 2.2 million+ citations from 4,400+ periodicals and 1,000+ book publishers. - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Digitized and searchable primary source collection of newspapers published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. - Salem Press Online This link opens in a new window
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Critical Approaches to Literature, Critical Insights: Authors, Critical Insights: Film, Novels into Film, Introduction to Literary Context, Critical Survey of Themes, Critical Survey of Themes, Critical Survey of Works - Seventeenth-Century News This link opens in a new windowAn official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association; SCN publishes commissioned scholarly reviews covering scholarship in all fields of seventeenth-century studies -- history, art history, the history of science, English, continental and American literature, music, and philosophy.
- Southern Literary Messenger: Literature of the Old South This link opens in a new window
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In print from 1834-1864, the Southern Literary Messenger was one of the most successful and influential literary magazines of the Antebellum and Civil War South. This collection shows scans and transcripts of every issue.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
Definitions, history, and quotations for over half a million words, both past and present.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- EBSCO (all collections) This link opens in a new window
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Articles and ebooks covering multidisciplinary subjects from all Ebsco databases. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. - ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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Articles from journals and newspapers covering all subject areas. Includes dissertations, working papers from OECD, company reports, and country profiles. - SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.