Shakespeare
Research Guide
Pat Ballard
Catalog Librarian
Winthrop University
June, 2008
Locating Information in the Online Catalog
Dacus Library's online catalog (DOC) allows information to be accessed by author, title and subject. Choose the author or title search mode to quickly locate a specific book. Choose the subject search mode to find books on a topic. Books about Shakespeare are found under the general subject heading, "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616." This main subject is further divided by subheadings such as "Adaptations," "Bibliography," "Characters," "Criticism and interpretation," "Sources," etc. To find a book about a specific play by Shakespeare, do a subject search by the title of the play, for example, "All's Well That Ends Well" or "Romeo and Juliet."
Guides
Andrews, John F., ed. William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence. 3 vols. (Ref. PR2976 .W5354 1985)
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z: the Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More. (Ref. PR2892 .B69 1990)
Campbell, Oscar James, ed. The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .C3)
Davis, J. Madison. The Shakespeare Name Dictionary. (Ref. PR2892 .D33 1995)
DeLoach, Charles. The Quotable Shakespeare: a Topical Dictionary. (Ref. PR2892 .D37 1988)
Kökeritz, Helge. Shakespeare's Names: a Pronouncing Dictionary. (Ref. PR3081 .K57)
McConnell, Louise. Dictionary of Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .M398 2000)
Martin, Michael Rheta. The Concise Encyclopedic Guide to Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .M39)
Nares, Robert. A Glossary of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions in the Works of English Authors, Particularly of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. New ed. (Ref. PE1667 .N32 1966x)
Olsen, Kirsten. All Things Shakespeare: an Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World. 2 vols. (Ref. PR2892 .O56 2002)
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy: a Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary. Rev. ed. (Ref. PR2892 .P27 1969)
Quennell, Peter and Hamish Johnson. Who's Who in Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2989 .Q4 1973b)
Rubinstein, Frankie. A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance. (Ref. PR2892 .R82 1984)
Scheeder, Louis. All the Words on Stage: a Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare. (Ref. PR3081 .S27 2002)
Schmidt, Alexander. Shakespeare-Lexicon: a Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet. 2 vols. 4th ed. (Ref. PR2892 .S4 1923)
Stokes, Francis Griffin. A Dictionary of the Characters & Proper Names in the Works of Shakespeare; with Notes on the Sources and Dates of the Plays and Poems. (Ref. PR2892 .S67 1970)
Thomson, Wilfrid Harry. Shakespeare's Characters: a Historical Dictionary. (Ref. PR2982 .T45)
Wells, Stanley W. A Dictionary of Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .W43 2005)
Handbooks
Baker, Arthur Ernest. A Shakespeare Commentary. 2 vols. (Ref. PR2892 .B2 1957)
Bartlett, John. A New and Complete Concordance or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, with a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems. (Ref. PR2892 .B34 1896)
De Grazia, Margreta and Stanley W. Wells, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. (PR2894 .C33 2001)
Dobson, Michael, ed. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .O94 2001)
Dominic, Catherine C., ed. Shakespeare's Characters for Students. (Ref. PR2989 .S53 1997)
Dutton, Richard and Jean E. Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works. 4 vols. (PR2976 .C572 2003) (On Reserve, at the Circulation Desk)
Garber, Marjorie B. Shakespeare After All. (PR2976 .G368 2004)
Halliday, F. E. A Shakespeare Companion, 1550-1950. (Ref. PR2892 .H3)
Hattaway, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays. (PR2982 .C29 2002)
Kastan, David Scott, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2910 .C66 1999)
McEachern, Claire, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. (PR2983 .C28 2002)
Palmer, Alan Warwick. Who's Who in Shakespeare's England. (Ref. PR2910 .P3 1999)
Rosenblum, Joseph, ed. The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare: A Comprehensive Guide for Students. 4 vols. (PR2976 .G739 2005)
Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Comedies. (Ref. PR3012 .S48 1993)
Shaheen, Naseeb. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays. (Ref. PR3012 .S53 1999)
Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2892 .S62)
Stevenson, Burton Egbert, ed. The Home Book of Shakespeare Quotations, Being Also a Concordance and a Glossary of the Unique Words and Phrases in the Plays and Poems. (Ref. PR2892 .S73x)
Wells, Stanley and Lena Cowen Orlin, eds. Shakespeare: an Oxford Guide. (PR2976.S333 2003) (On Reserve, at the Circulation Desk)
Bibliographies
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: a Discursive Bibliography. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .B45 1965)
Bevington, David M. Shakespeare. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .B48 1978) Old vol. is a bibliography, new vol. (PR2976 .B44 2002) contains a bibliography, but really deals with Shakespeare criticism, etc. Not the same at all.
Champion, Larry S. The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .C53 1986)
Coleman, Arthur. Drama Criticism. 2 vols. (Ref. PN1631 .B1 .C65 1966) Information about Shakespeare's plays is found in volume 1, pp. 236-392.
Ebisch, Walther. A Shakespeare Bibliography. 1 vol. & supplement. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .E18 1968 and Ref. PR2894 .B1 .E18 1968 suppl.)
Elton, William R. Shakespeare's World: Renaissance Intellectual Contexts: a Selective, Annotated Guide, 1966-1971. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .E38 1979)
Hayashi, Tetsumaru. Shakespeare's Sonnets: a Record of 20th-Century Criticism. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .H38 1972)
Howard-Hill, T. H. Shakespearian Bibliography and Textual Criticism: A Bibliography. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .H68 1971)
Jaggard, William. Shakespeare Bibliography: A Dictionary of Every Known Issue of the Writings of the Poet and Recorded Opinion Thereon in the English Language. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .J21 1959)
McManaway, James Gilmer. A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare: Editions, Textual Studies, Commentary. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .M33 1975)
Smith, Gordon Ross. A Classified Shakespeare Bibliography, 1936-1958. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .S64 1963)
Velz, John W. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: a Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .V4 1968)
Walker, John Lewis. Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: an Annotated Bibliography, 1961-1991. (Ref. PR3037 .S55 2002)
Wells, Stanley W., ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. (Ref. PR2894 .B1 .S53 1990)
Woodbridge, Linda. Shakespeare: a Selective Bibliography of Modern Criticism. (Ref. PR2976 .B1 .W66 1988)
Bibliographies - Plays Covered In Class
Carroll, D. Allen. A Midsummer Night's Dream: an Annotated Bibliography. (Ref. PR2827 .B1 .C37 1986)
Champion, Larry S. King Lear: An Annotated Bibliography. 2 vols. (Ref. PR2819 .B1 .C47 1980)
Nostbakken, Faith. Understanding A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. (PR2827 .N68 2003)
Nostbakken, Faith. Understanding The Tempest: a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. (PR2833 .N67 2004)
Raven, Anton Adolph. A Hamlet Bibliography and Reference Guide, 1877-1935. (Ref. PR2807 .B1 .R2 1966)
Woodford, Donna. Understanding King Lear: a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. (PR2819 .U54 2004)
Electronic Resources
Databases available through Dacus Library Online
Academic OneFile. Database indexing 10,400 journals, 8.400 of which are scholarly. Covers academic disciplines from science and technology to the humanities. Approximately 41% of the journals have full-text articles in the database. Coverage goes back to 1980. Updated daily.
Academic Search Premier A multi-disciplinary database which provides full-text articles from nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed (scholarly) journals. Covers some journals in English literature, and is updated daily.
FirstSearch. A group of 24 databases covering a wide range of information sources. Those useful for literature include Article1st, AH Search (Arts and Humanities Search), and WorldCat.
JSTOR. Considered a "scholarly journal archive," full-text journal articles are available for printing or downloading from PDF files. Access is provided to 63 journals in the Language and Literature discipline area. Links to journals in JSTOR are provided from other databases and DOC through WebBridge, and JSTOR can also be searched directly.
MLA International Bibliography (Print volumes have the call number Ref. PB35 .B1 .M25.) International index to scholarly research in more than 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Also covers relevant books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, etc. Covers 1926 to the present.
Web Sites
The Shakespeare Gateway. (http://www.winthrop.edu/english/core/Shakespeare/index.htm)
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. (http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/)
Shakespeare @ about.com. (http://shakespeare.about.com/ | 
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