Using Catalogs: Use the WSU
online
catalog to find location and availability of books and other media
in Stewart Library. Many books about Shakespeare's comedies
and tragedies are located on level two of the library in the General
Collection and begin with the call numbers PR2800 to PR2983.
Electronic Texts: The
Internet Shakespeare Editions are scholarly, fully annotated
texts of Shakespeare's plays. The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare are online from MIT.
From Bookstores:
Order books online from Amazon Books,
Barnes and Noble or Yahoo Books
Page. Also use Books
in Print sources as needed.
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will
borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
The library has shelves
of commentaries, concordances, encyclopedias and dictionaries on
Shakespeare in the Reference collection beginning in the PR2890's.
For home or off campus access please
use your WSU Login.
- Videos: The Stewart Library
Media Center on the lower level has over 40 Shakespeare videos.
- Literature
Resource Center: A complete literature reference database
including links to biographies, article searches, lists of Shakespeare's
works, etc. Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student
as well as the sophisticated casual user. Use the
remote access service if you are off campus.
- Shakespeare Collection: On CD ROM in the Stewart Library, ask
for assistance at the reference desk.
- Shakespeare
Resource Center Searchable Glossary:
Article
Databases
To find articles
on your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes. You can
also search by the title of play, or by name of a character. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
Electronic
Journals
Print Journals
- Shakespeare Studies - The print copy is available in
the Stewart Library, back issues on the 2nd Floor, and recent
copies on the main level in current periodicals at this
call number: PR2885.S64
- Shakespeare Survey - The print copy is available in the
Stewart Library, back issues on the 2nd Floor, and recent copies
on the main level in current periodicals at this call number:
PR 2888.C33
Here are
some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to
other links, so explore!
- Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet - an annotated guide to Shakespeare
resources available on the Internet. The criticism section is particularly
useful. For an overview of this excellent Web resource see the
site map.
- The Shakespeare Birthplace
Trust - Visit the five houses in or near Stratford-upon-Avon
connected with William Shakespeare and his family. The Shakespearean
houses offer a unique experience of the Stratford world in which
the famous dramatist and poet was born, lived and died.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library
- The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library.
The Folger houses the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's
printed works, in addition to a magnificent collection of other
rare Renaissance books and manuscripts.
- Shakepeare's Globe Research
Database - This Globe site, sponsored by the University of
Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information
on Shakespearean performance in original conditions.
- Richard III and Yorkist History
Server - This site is devoted to the study of King Richard
III, the Wars of the Roses, fifteenth-century England, and the
reputation of Richard III in history, literature, and drama, especially
Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare
and the Globe Collection of web sites
- Shakespeare Illustrated
- Shakespeare Illustrated explores nineteenth-century paintings,
criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences
on one another.
- The Bard Goes
Online - Short list of interesting sites from Professor Judy
Elsley
- Shakespeare.com -
news and reviews of Shakespearean theatre.
- Shakespeare Online
- Information on plays, poems, analysis, biography, etc.
- Shakespeare Resource Center
- information on the man, his works, language and grammar
- Film.com
(Reviews) - Use the Mega-Search and enter Shakespeare, or the
name of a particular play as a keyword to find reviews of Shakespeare
movies. Also try the Internet Movie
Database for information on films of Shakespeare's plays..
- Yahoo:Arts:Humanities:Literature:Genres:Drama:Playwrights:Shakespeare,William
(1564-1616) - Many more links on Shakespeare can be found
here.
Just for
fun!