Shakespeare Resources
Gale Literary Databases
Shakespearean Criticism provides accessible introductory essays followed by carefully selected critical responses to allow users to engage with a variety of scholarly views and critical conversations about Shakespeare’s works as literature and in performance.
Literary Criticism and Biography Databases is a portal. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to search all of the electronic resources from Gale we subscribe to or you can use the advanced search feature to search individual electronic resources. Important databases include:
Shakespearean Criticism (SC)
Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series (DLBDS)
Dictionary of Literary Biography Main Series (DLB)
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series (DLBYB)
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC)
Literary Index allows an author, title and custom search across Gale literary series.
Literature Resource Center provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Other Online Databases and E-Journals
Walsh Library subscribes to literary databases that will be useful for your research. Almost all of them provide access to full-text journals such as Shakespeare (London, England), Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Studies (Columbia), and the Shakespeare Newsletter. To find out which full-text journals are available see our E-Journals List. Or you may want to search our databases directly.
- Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford Scholarly Editions Online) This link opens in a new windowThe New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship.
- Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660This online index is a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660.
- The Records of Early English Drama (REED) projectAn international research collaboration that establishes the context from which the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowOffers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920's and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
- JSTOR - All library subscriptions This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is database that contains scholarly articles from many disciplines and subject areas. Much of its content is available in full-text (although full-text of recent articles may not be available for a year or more).
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing)(A&I) This link opens in a new windowSearch for historical context for Elizabethan England.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage of journal articles, selected web sites, and patents in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities; provides citation tracking for 1996+ (select coverage for earlier periods) and cited reference searches back to 1970.
Online Primary Sources
- Digital Anthology of Early English DramaFrom the Folger Shakespeare Library: original scripts and visual images from 40 plays.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new windowContains 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.
- Open Source ShakespeareOSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.
ONLINE DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
The OED has been the last word on words for over a century.
Founded on 9 July 2014, Folgerpedia is the Folger Shakespeare Library's collaboratively-edited, search-based encyclopedia of all things "Folger."
