Research Guide to Shakespeare

The following links will help you explore the growing number of Web sites devoted to William Shakespeare and his works:

• Shakespeare via Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Playwrights/Shakespeare__William__1564_1616_)
• Internet Shakespeare by Michael Best (ise.uvic.ca)
• Shakespeare Resource Center by J.M. Pressley (bardweb.net)
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet by Terry A. Gray (shakespeare.palomar.edu)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Jeremy Hylton/MIT (www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html)
• Shakespeare in Quarto digital images, courtesy of the British Library (www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html)
• Shakespeare's Works maintained by Terry A. Gray (shakespeare.palomar.edu/works.htm)
• Shakespeare's Monologues (www.shakespeare-monologues.org)
• The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) University of Pennsylvania/NEH (dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/eric/index.cfm)
• Renaissance: The Elizabethan World (elizabethan.org)
• The Shakespeare Mystery authorship debate on PBS Frontline (www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/tindex.html)
• Shakespeare Illustrated courtesy of Emory University (www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html)
• Shakespeare Photographs (1870-1982) from The Cleveland Press Cleveland State University Library (www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/index.html)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D.C. (www.folger.edu/Home_02b.html)
• Shakespeare Oxford Society (www.shakespeare-oxford.com)
• Shakespeare Study Guides via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Playwrights/Shakespeare__William__1564_1616_/Study_Guides)
• William Shakespeare in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare)
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Stratford-upon-Avon, UK (www.shakespeare.org.uk)
• The Globe Theatre London (www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/England/Counties_and_Regions/Greater_London/Entertainment_and_Arts/Theater/Globe_Theatre)
• Shakespearean Festivals via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Playwrights/Shakespeare__William__1564_1616_/Shakespeare_Festivals)
• Shakespeare: A Magazine for Teachers and Ethusiasts (www.shakespearemag.com)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: The Drama to 1642. Part I Bartleby.com (www.bartleby.com/215/index.html)
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: The Drama to 1642. Part II Bartleby.com (www.bartleby.com/216/index.html)

For tips on citation format, please see Diana Hacker's Humanities: Documenting Sources (bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e) or MLA Formatting and Style courtesy of the OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab (owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01).

Reference books are shelved by Library of Congress call number in the reference stacks on the first floor of the Ruth Haas Library. They may not be checked out, but photocopiers are available for student use on the first and third floors of the Haas Library.

CONSULS catalog workstations are located in the Reference Area on the first floor, and on each of the other floors of the Haas Library. You may logon to CONSULS via the WCSU Libraries Homepage at library.wcsu.edu or directly at www.consuls.org. For more detailed instructions on searching, please see the yellow CONSULS flyer on the display rack on the first floor.

Please Note: CONSULS ignores upper and lower case and you may omit punctuation, except the hyphen which must be replaced by a space.

TO FIND A WORK WITH A SPECIFIC TITLE:

Select Title at the CONSULS Main Menu, then type as much of the title as you remember in correct word order. In CONSULS, you may omit "a," "an," or "the" at the beginning of a title.

Example: Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet (press RETURN or ENTER)

Or Just: shakespeare machiavelli and (press RETURN)

If your TITLE search does not retrieve an entry for a separately published edition of the work, select the Words Search option to re-execute the search as a Keywords search, then scan the CONTENTS field of each entry for the title of the work you need.

TO FIND WORKS WRITTEN BY A SPECIFIC AUTHOR:

Select Author at the CONSULS Main Menu, then type the writer's name last-name-first. Correct spelling is important.

Example: bradley andrew cecil (press RETURN or ENTER)

Or just: bradley a c (press RETURN)

To limit search results to items owned by WCSU, click on Limit/Sort, then select WCSU under "Where Item Is Located."

TO FIND WORKS WRITTEN ABOUT A SPECIFIC WRITER:

Select Subject at the CONSULS Main Menu, then type the writer's name last-name-first. Correct spelling is important. To limit results to items owned by WCSU, use the Limit/Sort option.

Example: shakespeare william (press RETURN or ENTER)

Or just: shakespeare (press RETURN)

CONSULS will display a list of Library of Congress subject headings that begin with the writer's name:

Shakespeare William 1564 1616 (many subdivisions)

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Authorship

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Bibliography

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Biography

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Characters

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Comedies

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Criticism and interpretation

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Dictionaries

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Dramatic production

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Film and video adaptations

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Histories

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Influence

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Language

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Philosophy

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Political and social views

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Religion

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Sonnets

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Sources

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Study and teaching

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Stage history

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Style

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Technique

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Tragedies

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Tragicomedies

PLEASE NOTE: Personal name headings may also be subdivided by the titles of individual works:

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--As You Like It

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--King Richard II

Shakespeare William 1564 1616--Twelfth Night

TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC TOPIC BY SUBJECT HEADING:

Select Subject at the CONSULS Main Menu, then type the Library of Congress subject heading which best describes your topic. Correct spelling and word order are important. The complete list of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is published in a set of big red books available in the Reference Area on the first floor of the Haas Library.

Example: English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500 1600 (press RETURN or ENTER)

Or just: english drama early modern (press RETURN)

TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC TOPIC BY KEYWORD(S):

Select Keyword(s) at the CONSULS Main Menu, then type the words which best describe your topic, in any order.

Example: (symbol* or image*) and kingship and richard ii (press RETURN or ENTER)

Narrower: (mirror or jewel* or sceptre or crown) and kingship and richard ii (press RETURN)

Broader: shakespeare* and kingship and richard ii (press RETURN)

Example: shakespeare* and macbeth (press RETURN or ENTER)

Narrower: shakespeare* and macbeth and (supernatural or witch* or magic*) (press RETURN)

Broader: shakespeare* and (supernatural or magic*) (press RETURN)

Example: iago and (motive* or motivat* or intention*) (press RETURN or ENTER)

Narrower: iago and (hate or hatred or jealous*) (press RETURN)

Broader: shakespeare* and othello and iago (press RETURN)

Use the * (asterisk) as a truncation symbol to retrieve variant forms of a word root. Use the Boolean OR to expand your search by including synonyms and related terms. When using two different Boolean commands in the same search statement ("and " and "or" in the preceding examples) you must include parentheses to indicate which command is to be performed first.

TO REQUEST MATERIALS FROM THE OTHER CSU LIBRARIES:

If the item you need is owned by one of the other CSU Libraries (CCSU, SCSU, or ECSU) but not by WCSU, or if WCSU's copy is checked out, you may order the item electronically via Inter-Campus Loan by clicking on Request at the full record display in CONSULS. Then type your University network username and password OR your University ID number and library PIN. Be sure to specify a pickup location (Haas or Young Library) before clicking on the gray bar to initiate your request. If you need assistance with your library PIN, please contact the Circulation Desk at (203) 837-9100.

There is a limit of ten (10) Inter-Campus Loan requests per person. Videos are available via Inter-Campus Loan. Please allow 4-5 days for delivery to the Circulation Desk at the Haas Library. Items borrowed via Inter-Campus Loan may be renewed for another borrowing period if no one has placed a HOLD on the item.

JSTOR

Coverage: Issue number one to within 2-5 years of present

Location: Under Articles & Databases: Most Popular on the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Full-text of over 500 core scholarly journals in more than 25 disciplines, including Shakespeare Quarterly (1950-2003) and Renaissance Quarterly (1948-2005).

Academic Search Premier in EBSCOhost

Coverage: 1990 - present (earlier for some publication)

Location: Under Articles & Databases: Most Popular on the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Indexes over 8,000 newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in most fields, with over 4,000 available in full-text, including Shakespeare Studies (1975 to present).

MLA International Bibliography

Coverage: 1963 - present

Location: Under Articles & Databases A-Z on the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Indexes books, book essays, journal articles, and Ph.D. dissertations in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Some linked full-text. No abstracts.

WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch

Location: Select OCLC FirstSearch under Articles & Databases: Most Popular on the WCSU Libraries Homepage.

Scope: Indexes 100+ million books, manuscripts, theses, and non-print materials. If the item is not owned by WCSU, you may use Interlibrary Loan.

To find out if WCSU subscribes to a specific periodical in print or online:

1. Select Journal Title at the CONSULS main menu, then type the name of the periodical (example: shakespeare quarterly) and press RETURN. If a title list appears on the screen, select the desired title, then look inside the box to find WCSU holdings. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to see if WCSU owns backfiles on microfilm or microfiche.

2. To find out if a given periodical is available in full-text in one or more of WCSU's online databases, search the title of the publication (example: shakespeare studies) in the A-to-Z Journal Title Locator available under Articles & Databases on the WCSU Libraries Homepage (library.wcsu.edu).

If the CSU Libraries do not own the book you need, or if WCSU does not subscribe to the periodical you need, you may request delivery of the item via Interlibrary Loan using the online ILLiad system available at: libguides.wcsu.edu/ill.

There is a limit of 5 Interlibrary Loan requests per person per day. Videos are not available via Interlibrary Loan. Under most circumstances, Interlibrary Loan is a free service, but please allow at least ten working days for delivery. You will be notified as soon as the material arrives. Faster document delivery service is available for a reasonable fee. Please see the librarian at the Reference Desk or call the Interlibrary Loan Desk at (203) 837-9114 for more information.

The Reference Desk on the first floor of the Haas Library is staffed by a professional librarian who is trained to assist in your research, or you may contact Joan Reitz, Instruction Librarian, at 837-8308 or reitzj@wcsu.edu. My office is in Room 402 (near the glass elevator) on the fourth floor of the Haas Library.