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Online/Library
Resources For Harper College Students Studying The Life
and Works of William Shakespeare
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Catalog - Click here to search our catalog for books
and audiovisual materials in our collection.
The Harper Library Reference Collection has many excellent
and helpful resources for the student of Shakespeare
and his works. We recommend the following (but have
many more Shakespeare resources in our collection):
Andrews, John F. William Shakespeare: His World
- His Work - His Influence. 1985. CALL NUMBER
= REF PR 2976 .W5354 1985. Three volume set. Detailed
information on Shakespeare's writings, the world in
which he lived and worked, and the people and events
which influenced him.
Dominic, Catherine C. (ed.) Shakespeare's Characters
for Students. 1997. CALL NUMBER = REF PR 2989
.S53 1997. Detailed portrayal of each character in the
plays of Shakespeare. Excellent resource if you are
writing a paper on one specific character or are comparing
several characters.
Lanzen Harris, Laurie & Mark W. Scott. Shakespearean
Criticism. 1984. CALL NUMBER = REF PR 2965 .S43
1984 Multi-volume set, new volumes are continually being
added to the series. Reprinted articles of criticism
taken from journals and books. The latest volume has
a helpful "Topic Index by Play": find which
volume speaks directly to your play and your theme or
thesis statement.
Scott, Mark W. (ed.). Shakespeare for Students.
1992. CALL NUMBER = REF PR 2987 .S47 1992 and 1996 An
overview of each play - plot, characters, themes and
meanings. Literary technique and style are also discussed
- some literary criticism is included.
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Literary Reference Center - Includes
more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews,
75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author
biographies, full text of over 300 literary journals,
500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary
poems, 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories,
full text of over 7,500 classic novels (anticipated by
Fall 2006), 3,000 author interviews, and over 1,000 images
of key literary figures.
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MLA - MLA
International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.
Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic
version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains
over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals
and series and 1,000 book publishers.
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Literature Resource Center - An all-Literature database from the Gale Publishing
Group. Search by Shakespeare as an Author or by Title
of each play. Biographies, literary criticism, reviewed
web sites and more. All full-text.
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Choose the MLA database from the list. Search for Shakespeare's
plays, characters, themes and imagery. Very little full-text,
but extremely valuable for the student of Literature. |
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Citing Electronic Documents (Full-Text Articles)
Last updated 09/20/09 |
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