Elizabethan Theatre
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key databases
World Shakespeare bibliography
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced from 1971 onwards
Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Criticism and reference resources include KnowledgeNotes; Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-) and articles from over 123 literature journals
MLA international bibliography
Indexes materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement - all in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection
Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference
Other databases
Indexes publications in the areas of: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology
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