Ritz Library: ENG 230: Shakespeare: Start Your Research

Finding Shakespeare in Films on Demand

The database Films on Demand offers streaming videos of many versions of many Shakespeare plays. Once you log into Films on Demand, search for the name of the play you want.

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Selected Databases

Gale Literature
You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
JSTOR
Articles from current issues & archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Contains almost 400 journals in covering all major academic fields of study. As of August 1, 2024, ArtStor is now included in JStor.
Literature Criticism (Gale)
Criticism of literary works by major authors, including poems, short stories, plays & novels. Also includes biographical information. Best database for Shakespeare criticism.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Contains biographies, overviews, literary criticisms and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines from all time periods world-wide.
LitFinder (Gale)
Accesses literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also included are biographies, images and more.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
If you have to do a paper on a social problem, this is a great place to start! Provides overviews, pro/con essays, articles from reference books, newspapers, and magazines, and links to websites, podcasts and videos on over 5,000 topics that concentrate on social issues.
Critical Survey of Graphic Novels
Information pertaining to graphic novels

Recommended Websites

British Library Shakespeare in Quarto
To select a quarto, click on The texts" tab, "View one text", select a play from the drop down menu and then hit "go".
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
MIT site that includes all of Shakepeare's plays and poems in HTML format.
Concordance of Shakespeare - OpenSource Shakespeare
Find any word in any of Shakespeare's works in context.
Discovering Literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance Writers
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world.
Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Library
Digital reproductions of Shakespeare's works housed at the Schoenberg Center for Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Shakespeare-related resources, including fully annotated texts of his plays and poems, multimedia materials and records of his plays in performance,
No Fear Shakespeare
"No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today."
Shakespeare's Globe
"Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education."
Shakespeare Documented
The largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Resource Center
You'll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you discover William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find the most useful ones.

Videos

ShakespeaRe-told are modern re-tellings of 4 of Shakespeare's plays:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew

Mobile Shakespeare

Shakespeare for Android
"Read the complete works -- the app contains 41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including apocrypha."

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