Guides: Shakespeare: Home

Finding research material in Worldcat

Sofia is the main catalogue for all books and other media available through the McGill Library. To find books and other media you can search Sofia using the title, author, or any combination of keywords.

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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
Essays on Character; Performance; the Texts; Language; Structure of the plays; Shakespeare's Sources and Historical background to the plays.
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality and Race
Oxford Handbook on the Age of Shakespeare
The Plays of Shakespeare : a Thematic Guide
Shakespeare's Books: a Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources
Shakespeare's Demonology:a Dictionary
Shakespeare's Non-standard English: a Dictionary of his Informal Language
Shakespeare's Sexual Language: a Dictionary

* Core and Additional Databases - finding critical articles, essays, commentary, reviews

Literature Online (ProQuest)
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contains MLA Bibliography and Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL); earliest article is 1884
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
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critical material (no book reviews) on the literature of most nations, with particular emphasis on literature published in the English language.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) 1920- (ProQuest)
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critical material on literature published in the English language; also covers linguistics, cultural and film studies; includes reviews
World Shakespeare Bibliography
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books, articles, essays, reviews from 1960 to date
Shakespeare Collection (Archives Unbound)
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includes critical essays and articles; prompt books (17th -20th Cs); editions and adaptations
Gale Literature Criticism (Gale)
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click on advanced > scroll to Product/Series and pull down menu to select Shakespeare
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
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scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Earliest Shakespeare article is 1930.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson) (EBSCO)
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interdisciplinary; earliest Shakespeare item is 1907.
Humanities International Index (EBSCO)
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Shakespeare material from 1909 to date
Humanities Index (ProQuest)
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formerly British Humanities Index; Shakespeare material from 1960 to date
Performing Arts Periodicals Database (ProQuest)
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includes Shakespeare material published from 1867 to date
Readers' Guide Retrospective:1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
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mostly magazine articles; Shakespeare material from 1889 to date.
American Periodicals (ProQuest)
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Shakespeare material from 1759 to 1940
British Periodicals (ProQuest)
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Shakespeare material from 1759 to 2007
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
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Shakespeare material from 1817 to 2005
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO)
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this collection is in a 5-part series; Shakespeare material from 1709-1890.
American Literary Periodicals, 1782-1834 (EBSCO)
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American Literary Periodicals, 1835-1858 (EBSCO)
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The Plays - searchable full-text

Drama Online (Bloomsbury)
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the Arden Shakespeare editions of the plays
Literature Online (ProQuest)
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to access the plays click on texts >"drama" >"look up playwrights" .> shakespeare > FIND > click on "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616" .> SEARCH

Film Resources

Drama Online (Bloomsbury)
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the Shakespeare Globe Theater productions
Kanopy
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the 1978 BBC productions of all the plays; Royal Shakespeare Company productions; documentaries to help brush up your Shakespeare
Theatre in Video (Alexander Street)
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Lectures, documentaries, and all Royal Shakespeare Company productions of the plays.
Films on Demand
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documentaries and commentary on Shakespeare, the plays and the Elizabethan period

Liaison Librarian

Lonnie Weatherby

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