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Introduction to Shakespeare Professor Randy Ingram Fall 2004 Reference Works Indexes & Databases Tools for Locating Books Tools for Locating Articles Starting Points Subject-Specific Indexes & Databases Electronic Journal Collections Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Biographies | Bibliographies | Dictionaries | General Works Biographies Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . British Writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert et al. New York: Scribner's, 1979- . Reference R 820.9 B8621 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- . Reference R 928.1 D554 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. Reference R 920 N2111 Who's Who in Stuart Britain. C.P. Hill. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1988. Reference R 942.06 H645w Bibliographies The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. Larry S. Champion. 2nd ed. New York: G.K. Hall, 1993. Reference R 016.82 S527ch Davidsoniana Room D 081 C452es, 1993 Othello, An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. Margaret Lael Mikesell and Virginia Mason Vaughan. New York: Garland, 1990. Reference R 016.82 S527o-m Richard III, An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. James A. Moore. New York: Garland, 1986. Reference R 016.82 S527ri Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography. Joseph Rosenblum. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992. Reference R 016.82 S527ro Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary. Philip C. Kolin. New York: Garland, 1991. Reference R 016.82 S527k Shakespeare and Minorities: An Annotated Bibliography, 1970-2000. Parvin Kujoory. Landham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001. Reference R 016.82 S527ku Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: An Annotated Bibliography, 1961-1991. Comp. Lewis Walker. New York: Routledge, 2002. Reference R 016.82 S527wa The Shakespeare Folio Handbook and Census. Comp. Harold M. Otness. New York: Greenwood, 1990. Reference R 016.82 S527ot The Shakespeare Index: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Articles on the Plays, 1959-1983. Ed. Bruce T. Sajdak. 2 vols. Millwood, NJ: Kraus, 1992. Reference R 016.82 S527sa Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1984- . Reference R 822.33 DS5275 To locate relevant entries in this set, consult Gale's Literary Index. Shakespearian Bibliography and Textual Criticism: A Bibliography. T.H. Howard-Hill. 2nd ed. Signal Mountain, TN: Summertown, 2000. Reference R 016.82 S527h2 Shakespeare's Othello: A Bibliography. John Hazel Smith. New York: AMS Press, 1988. Reference R 016.82 S527o-s Two Gentlemen of Verona, An Annotated Bibliography. Comp. D'Orsay W. Pearson. New York: Garland, 1988. Reference R 016.82 S527t Which Shakespeare? A User's Guide to Editions. Ann Thompson. Philadelphia, PA: Open Univ. Press, 1992. Reference R 822.33 ET468w Dictionaries A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. Gordon Williams. 3 vols. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1994. Reference R 820.9 W7231d A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance. Frankie Rubinstein. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Reference R 822.33 GR896d A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language. Gordon Williams. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1997. Reference R 822.33 DW723g The Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Ed. J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. 2nd ed. 20 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Reference R 423 O98m The online version also contains entries being prepared for the third edition. The complete second edition is also on CD-ROM (ask at Circulation Desk). The first edition of the OED is still a useful resource; see A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, edited by A.H. Murray et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888–1928), shelved at Reference R 423 O98. Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words: A Guide from A to Zounds. Dale F. Coye. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Reference R 822.33 GC881p The Shakespeare Name Dictionary. J. Madison Davis and A. Daniel Frankforter. New York: Garland, 1995. Reference R 822.33 GD262s Shakespeare's Legal Language: A Dictionary. B.J. Sokol and Mary Sokol. New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press, 2000. Reference R 822.33 GS683s Shakespeare's Military Language: A Dictionary. Charles Edelman. New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press, 2000. Reference R 822.33 GE21s Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of his Stage Context. Hugh Macrae Richmond. New York: Continuum, 2002. Reference R 822.33 GR532s Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion. David Crystal and Ben Crystal. New York: Penguin, 2002. Reference R 822.33 GC957s General Works All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World. Kirstin Olsen. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. Reference R 822.33 GO52a The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare. Dick Riley and Pam McAllister. New York: Continuum, 2001. Reference R 822.33 GR573b Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays. Naseeb Shaheen. Neward, DE: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999. Reference R 822.33 S525b Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul F. Grendler. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1999. Reference R 940.2 E56 English Historical Facts, 1485-1603. Ken Powell and Chris Cook. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977. Reference R 942 C771e 1485-1603 English Historical Facts, 1603-1688. Chris Cook and John Wroughton. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. Reference R 942 C771e 1603-1688 Europe 1450-1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2004. Reference R 940.2 E89 The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Marvin Spevack. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1973. Reference R 822.33 GS752h Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Ed. Ronald H. Fritze and William B. Robison. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Reference R 942.06 H673 Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World. John A. Wagner. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1999. Reference R 942.05 W133h Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603. Ed. Ronald H. Fritze. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Reference R 942.04 H673 The Longman Companion to the Tudor Age. Rosemary O'Day. New York: Longman, 1995. Reference R 942.05 O22L The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Michael Dobson. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 822.33 GO98 Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary. Ed. Sandra Clark. London: Penguin, 1999. Reference R 822.33 GH975 1999 Routledge Who's Who in Shakespeare. Peter Quennell and Hamish Johnson. London: Routledge, 1995. Reference R 822.33 GQ3r Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential References to his Plays, his Poems, his Life and Times, and More. Charles Boyce. New York: Laurel, 1991. Reference R 822.33 GB7891s Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film. Eddie Samons. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005. Reference R 791.43 S189c Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography. Kenneth S. Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1990. Reference R 016.791 R848s Shakespearean Concepts: A Dictionary of Terms and Conventions, Influences and Institutions, Themes, Ideas, and Genres in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Simon Trussler. London: Methuen, 1989. Reference R 822.33 GT873s Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. Stuart Gillespie. London: Athlone, 2001. Reference R 822.33 FG478s Shakespeare's World and Work: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. John F. Andrews. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001. Reference R 822.33 GS527 Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain. New York: Garland, 2001. Reference R 942.05 T912 William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume. Ed. Catherine Loomis. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2002. [Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 263] Reference R 928.1 D554 v.263 Indexes & Databases Tools for Locating Books | Tools for Locating Articles | Electronic Journal Collections Tools for Locating Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). Relevant subject headings include: Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Julius Caesar Shakespeare William 1564-1616 political and social views Great Britain history Elizabeth Great Britain history James I Great Britain history Stuarts Great Britain history Tudors Theater and Society England History Theater audiences England Theater England history Theater England London history Theater Great Britain history    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a dollar sign $.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To print more than one page of a document, you need to "Mark All" pages, view your "Marked List," and then download the document images (not the citation). Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Shakespeare in Quarto: The British Library's Digital Copies Online Provides digital images of 93 copies of the 21 Shakespeare plays that were printed in quarto before 1642. Also includes background information and a glossary. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Tools for Locating Articles Starting Points Academic Search Elite (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. InfoTrac OneFile (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an exclamation point !. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Subject-Specific Indexes & Databases Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL). Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1924 - . Reference R 016.82 M689a Indexes journal articles and books published from 1920 to present; also includes citations to book reviews. ABELL is particularly good source of information about books published in the U.K. Many of these works do not appear in the MLAIB. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.    Search Syntax     Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. MLA International Bibliography (1963 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore. Note: To locate articles from earlier time periods, consult the MLA International Bibliography, 1925-1962 (Reference R 016.4 M16m).    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (1971 to present) Includes citations to articles, books, theatrical productions, and audiovisual materials related to Shakespeare; also includes performance reviews, books reviews, and film reviews.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Electronic Journal Collections JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a plus sign +.     Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Tips & Further Help How to Narrow or Broaden your Search How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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