Xavier University: Library: Librarian Course Guides: Shakespeare

XPLORE Library Catalog (tips & tricks; RefWorks help; XLinks; video tutorials) is Xavier library's online public access catalog. It includes all of the library's books, journals, audiovisuals, and microform materials. Search XPLORE by keyword, author, title and Library of Congress subject heading. If you don't find what you need, request it online (printable instructions; video tutorial) from OhioLINK, the combined library catalog of 88 college, university, public, and state libraries in Ohio.

Use XPLORE to look up books, and to see whether or not we own a journal. You can also use XPLORE to check other library catalogs and to borrow books from other libraries using OhioLink.

Shakespeare: Editions and Adaptations 1623-1866; all full-text; XLinks) includes the complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio in 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-1866. It also includes twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It is produced by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

MLA International Bibliography (1926-present; updated 10 times/year; some full-text; tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) provides a classified listing and subject index for books, journal articles, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association of America and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (middle ages-present; all full-text; XLinks), an historical dictionary of the English language, is the online version of the 2nd print edition of the dictionary. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Oxford University Press.

Literary Reference Center (all full-text; Tutorials; RefWorks help; XLinks) is a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. Search results can be limited to literary criticism or Masterplots. Users can browse most studied authors and works and view book highlights and the author in focus. Features include a glossary and historical timeline. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing.

Literature Resource Center (all full-text; XLinks; RefWorks help) provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. It includes online versions of Gale's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selections from Gale's other Literature Criticism and For Students Series, such as Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism and Short Stories for Students. It permits searches by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary themes. It is produced by Thomson-Gale and the user interface is provided by InfoTrac.

Renaissance Women Online (1400-1700; all full-text; XLinks), included in Women Writers Online, this database is a collection of 100 Renaissance texts from the early modern period accompanied by introductions to the individual works and essays on the cultural context of the period, all written by scholars in the field. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the Women Writers Project at Brown University.

Electronic Journal Center (about 1995-present; updates dependent upon publisher; all full-text; RefWorks help; XLinks; saving searches) is a multidisciplinary collection of about 5,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Psychological Association (PsycARTICLES), Association of Computing Machinery, Berkeley Electronic Press, BioOne, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Emerald (MCB University Press), Ingenta, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, Lawrence Erlbaum, Optical Society of America, Oxford University Press, Project MUSE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Scholars can be notified by email about new relevant articles according to subject, author or journal title. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by OhioLINK.

Folger Shakespeare Library
The largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works and is a major center for scholarly research.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Provides Shakespeare biographies, information about Elizabethan theaters and excellent guides to finding secondary sources on Shakespeare on the Web.

Shakespeare Resource Center
Provides a brief biography of Shakespeare, a short essay on Shakespeare's works, synopses of the major plays, a text of Shakespeare's will, a summary of the Elizabethan era, a commentary on Shakespeare's language, a reading list, and links to related sites.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
This site includes information about houses associated with Shakespeare and his family and read about their histories.

Shakespeare's Life and Times
A valuable resource for information on Shakespeare's life and on many aspects of the Elizabethan era. Includes coverage of Elizabethan English, including sound recordings of passages from selected plays that illustrate Elizabethan pronunciation.

Shakespeare's School
Provides information about the school attended by Shakespeare as a boy and the education of boys in Elizabethan England.

Shakespeare's Globe Trust
Shakespeare’s Globe Trust is dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance. Uniquely its work celebrates the fact that the greatest dramatic poet in the English language lived and worked in London and that the cradle of English theatre was on Bankside by the River Thames.

Shakespeare Examined through Performance
Contains a variety of performance exercises developed by participants in a 1995-96 Folger Institute session and is a good resource for those interested in teaching and staging Shakespeare.

The Interactive Shakespeare Project
This online study guide for Measure for Measure offers an annotated text of the play, a teacher's guide, essays, performance exercises, photos, video clips, and a virtual tour of Shakespeare's Globe.

Early Modern Literary Studies
Available here are full-text articles and reviews from this online scholarly journal of English language and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Shakespeare Magazine Online
Provides selected articles as well as current information about Shakespeare events, including performances, films, conferences, and lectures.

Shakespeare Quarterly
Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's

(Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.

Shakespeare Studies
Full-text, electronic journal. Link takes you to the library's

(Electronic Journal Locator & more!). Select a database to continue.

Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was started in 1990 on the rec.arts.movies newsgroup by a group of movie fans. Includes information on hundreds of thousands of movies and the people who help make them. Includes actors and actresses, directors, writers and a wide variety of other folks from producers to gaffers. Provides a variety of search indexes.

Literary Resources on the Net
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics - most poetry journals are excluded, for instance. This page is maintained by Jack Lynch.