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Reference Sources in Blackwell Library

Guides to Criticism

A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare     REF Z8811 .M23

A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare  Ref Z8811.B45 1973

Shakespeare (Goldentree Bibliographies)  Ref Z8811.B48

The Essential Shakespeare  Ref Z8811.C53 1986

Shakespeare: A Selective Bibliography of Modern Criticism   REF  Z8811 .W85 1988
  The Major Shakespearean Tragedies Ref Z8812 .O54

 Brief biographies

Dictionary of National Biography   Ref DA28.D422

British Authors Before 1800   PR105 .K9

The Shakespeare Companion   Ref PR2895 .E9
 
 

Plot Summaries

Outlines of Shakespeare's Plays   Ref PR2987 .W3 1970

The Shakespeare Companion   Ref PR2895 .E9  

Glossaries, Quotations, Background

The Shakespeare Key   Ref PR2892.C45 1961

Pronouncing Dictionary of Shakespearean Proper Names    Ref PR3081 .I65 1944

Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare   Ref PR2982.C3

Longman's Guide to Shakespeare Quotations   Ref PR2892.G7

The Folger Book of Shakespeare Quotations   Ref PR2892.S62

The Home Book of Shakespeare Quotations   Ref  PR2892.S7

Resources on the Web

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - comprehensive guide to biographical and critical materials, e-texts, historical background, and much more.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare - HTML texts of all Shakespeare's works.

Renaissance and 17th Century Literature - scroll down to the Shakespeare section for a comprehensive guide to web resources (from TheVoice of the Shuttle," a Humanities research project.

Shakespeare Illustrated - good quality reproductions of 18th and 19th century art depicting Shakespearean performances and subjects.

The Shakespeare Question - the main arguments in the long-standing question of Shakespearean authorship.

The Shakespeare Authorship Page - explores scholarly research to support the theory that "Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare."

An Authorship Analysis: Francis Bacon as Shake-speare - presents scholarly evidence about the authorship question.
 
 

Databases  - Links to databases available through Blackwell Library.

 

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