The following subheadings combined with the subject heading Shakespeare will lead you to many but by no means all of Crumb Library's resources for Shakespeare research.

Subheadings by form:

Addresses, essays and lecture

Bibliography

Biography

Concordances

Dictionaries, indexes, etc.

Subheadings by title of individual works:

Hamlet

Subheadings by subject aspect:

Characters

Criticism and interpretation

Knowledge and learning

Languages

Sources

Style

Versification

Subheadings are combined when applicable to provide the most specific indexing possible.
Shakespeare -- Criticism and interpretation -- Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHIES: REVIEWS OF THE LITERATURE

Reviews of the literature select and evaluate or summarize the critical research for you.

• The Essential Shakespeare: an annotated bibliography of major modern studies. (Ref PR 2894 .C53 1993) Long annotations of books and articles. Arranged by specific work.
• *** Shakespearean criticism: excerpts from the criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry from the first published appraisals to current evaluations. (Ref PR 2965.S43) Many volumes. There is a cumulative subject index in each volume.
• Shakespeare: a bibliographical guide. (PR 2894.S45 1990) Bibliographical essays on individual plays, groups of plays, and performance.
• Shakespeare and feminist criticism: an annotated bibliography and commentary. (PR 2965.K76 1991)
• The New Cambridge bibliography of English literature. (Ref PR 1.A1 N45) 1974. Chapter IX-Shakespeare. Bibliography on Hamlet, pp 1515-1523. A chronologically arranged comprehensive, retrospective bibliography.
• Shakespeare quarterly. (PR 2885.S63) 1950-date. Each Fall issue contains a comprehensive, annotated, classified world bibliography for the preceeding year. Use to find the latest published research.
• The Year's work in English studies. (Ref PE 58.E6) Each volume has a chapter which reviews the published Shakespearean research of the previous year.
• The MLA Bibliography. (on the library web site) The most comprehensive annual bibliography to literary studies. Worldwide coverage.
• Humanities Abstracts(on the library web site) An index to selected journals, including some literary.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES: CHECKLISTS

The following are comprehensive lists of books, periodicals or other materials on specific types of English literature, i.e. drama and poetry, that give minimal or no description or annotation.

• Drama criticism. (Ref PS 332.A1 C6 1966) 2 Volumes. Criticism since 1940.
• An Index to criticism of British and American poetry. 1973. (Ref PR 89.C5)
• Poetry explication: a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present. (Ref PR 502.A1 K8 1980)
• American and British poetry: a guide to the criticism 1925-1978. (Ref PS 303.A1 A44) Shakespeare p.341-347
• Online search tools for literary/critical articles
  • MLA Bibliography
  • Literature Resource Center
  • JSTOR
  • Project Muse

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES:

• The Reader's encyclopedia of Shakespeare. (Ref PR 2892.C3) 1966.
• The Shakespeare handbook. (Ref PR 2976.S3374) Brief introductions to each play, to Shakespeare's life, and to stage history.
• Encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. (Ref PN 1021.E5) 1965.
• A Dictionary of the characters and proper names in the works of Shakespeare (Ref PR 2892.S67 1960)
• A Dictionary of Shakespeare's sexual puns and their significance. (Ref PR 2997.P8R82)
• The Shakespeare companion. (Ref PR 2976.E9) 1978. Includes a chronology, glossary, plot summaries and much information on staging of his plays through the years.

CONCORDANCE:

This enables you to find how Shakespeare used individual words in his writings

A Complete and systematic concordance to the works of Shakespeare. (Ref PR 2892.S6) 1968. 6 Vols.

ON LINE SEARCH TOOLS:

• Mr. William Shakespeare on the Internet - a comprehensive site

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