Databases
- Locate Articles about Shakespeare and His Works- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
- JSTOR
- Literature Criticism Online
- MLA International Bibliography
- Project MUSE
- BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Video) This link opens in a new window"Featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent Ambrose Video is proud to be the exclusive distributor of Shakespeare's plays which are so richly rewarding to our viewers."
- Shakespeare in Performance (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new window"goes behind the scenes to shine a light on how Shakespeare’s plays have been interpreted by theatre companies, actors and directors across the centuries. The resource features prompt books from the world-famous collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries."
- Music Online: Classical Music Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowMulti-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online (DLB) (Gale) This link opens in a new windowThe award-winning Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography provides comprehensive access to the series dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers while simultaneously satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers, and scholars. The series provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes. a total of more than 400 volumes and 185,000 pages.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Available on the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Parts I & II (Gale) This link opens in a new windowEighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages.*
ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories. - English Drama (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowNow available on the Proquest platform.
"A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde." - Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1943+) This link opens in a new windowA collection of electronic resources relevant to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
- Literature Resource Center (Gale) This link opens in a new windowGale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. The resource provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.
Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world - MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowMagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
- Mango Languages This link opens in a new window
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English (Shakespearean) -- learn Shakespearean insults with lines from Romeo & Juliet - OED: Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) This link opens in a new windowWilliam Shakespeare is the second most frequently quoted source in the OED. Explore Sources to discover specific quotations.
"The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world."
The 20-volume print set is available in the Main Library Reference -- PE1625.M7 1989. - Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to the full text of over 4,000 Oxford monographs in Biology, Business & Management, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health & Epidemiology, Religion, and Social Work
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+) This link opens in a new window
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"Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses."
For abstracts from 1938-1980 see the print volumes of Dissertation Abstracts International
Web Resources
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare"the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare"
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE)"The mission of the ISE is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience by delivering open-access, peer-reviewed Shakespeare resources with the highest standards of scholarship, design, and usability."
- OpenSourceShakespeare"attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works"
- Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF"produces bold professional theater, develops new plays, and provides innovative educational experiences that enrich our community"
- Folger Shakespeare Librarya world-renowned research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West.
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust"The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for the world's largest collection of Shakespeare related material accessible by the public."
- Shakespeare Illustrated"Shakespeare Illustrated, a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."
- Shakespeare Quartos ArchiveA digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays.
- English Renaissance in Context (ERIC)"The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions."
- Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare LibraryFacsimile copies of historical folios.
- Shakespeare Authorship Page"Dedicated to the Proposition that Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare"
- Treasures in Full: Shakespeare in QuartoFrom the British Library, facsimiles of quarto editions before 1642. Lots of other features.
- World Shakespeare Bibliography"The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2016."
- William Shakespeare (Playbill)lists performances of Shakespeare back to Richard III at Nassau Street Theatre in 1750
Shakespeare Monologues
- Once More Unto the Speech, Dear Friends: Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio with Modern Text Versions for ComparisonCall Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- PR2768.F74 2006- v.1: The Comedies
- v.2: The Histories
- v.3: The Tragedies
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v. 1. The comedies -- General introduction -- Preface and brief background to the first folio -- Introduction -- Principles applicable to all the plays -- Exploring the comedies -- Summary -- How the three columns work visually -- Speeches -- Comedy of errors -- Two gentlemen of Verona -- The taming of the shrew -- Love's labour's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- Much ado about nothing -- The merry wives of Windsor -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- Measure for measure -- All's well that ends well -- The winter's tale -- The tempest -- v. 2. The histories -- General introduction -- Preface and brief background to the first folio -- Introduction -- Principles applicable to all the plays -- Exploring the histories -- Speeches -- Henry VI Part 1 -- Henry VI Part 2 -- Henry VI Part 3 -- Richard III -- King John -- Richard II -- Henry IV Part 1 -- Henry IV Part 2 -- Henry V -- Henry VIII -- v. 3. The tragedies -- General introduction -- Preface and brief background to the first folio -- Introduction -- Principles applicable to all the plays -- Exploring the tragedies -- Summary -- How the three columns work visually -- Speeches -- Titus Andronicus -- Romeo & Juliet -- Julius Cæsar -- Hamlet -- Troylus & Cressida -- Othello -- Macbeth -- Timon of Athens -- King Lear -- Coriolanus -- Anthony & Cleopatra -- Cymbeline.