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Print Materials in Xavier Library
Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide (PR 2894 .B44 1995)
Shakespeare Quarterly (Periodicals)
Shakespeare Studies (Periodicals)
Online Databases in Xavier Library
XPLORE Online Catalog
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; Linking to items) 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 (more
info)
An international index to hundreds of periodicals in modern languages and literatures,
linguistics, and folklore. Includes references to articles, essays and books.
Some journal references include links to the full text of the article online.
British & Irish Women's Letters & Diaries (1500-1950; all full-text; XLinks) contains the letters and diaries of about 500 British and Irish women as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters spanning more than 300 years. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. It includes biographies and an annotated bibliography of sources. Users can search by authors, sources, years, places, personal events, and historical events. The showcase provides page images of selected diaries. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by Alexander Street Press in collaboration with the University of Chicago.
Oxford English Dictionary (all full-text)
Full text of the 2nd Edition. The OED is an historical dictionary of the English Language from the Middle Ages to the present.
Literary Reference Center (all full-text; Linking to items) 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) 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 Contemporay 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), a subset of 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; all full-text; more
info)
Collection of about 4,000 journals published by Academic Press, American Chemical
Society, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Blackwell,
Elsevier, Institute of Physics, Kluwer, MCB University Press, MUSE, Royal Society
of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme and Wiley. Updates dependent upon publisher.
User interface by OhioLINK.
General Web Sites
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.
Life of Shakespeare
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.
Life in Elizabethan England:
A Compendium of Common Knowledge
A wealth of information about everyday life in Elizabethan England. Covers such
topics as education, food, games, weddings, among others.
Performance and Theaters
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.
The Cleveland Press Shakespeare
Photographs 1870-1982
The site includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring
regional production companies and televised Productions.
Shakespeare's Texts Online
Internet Shakespeare Editions
ISE's site offers annotated, old-spelling transcriptions of the plays.
Shakespeare Journals Online
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.
Related Web Sites
British Library
The web site of the UK's national library.
Early Modern
English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
A database that combines the full texts of early dictionaries, glossaries, grammars
and encyclopedias written from 1500 to 1660.
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.
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