Shakespeare Studies
An interdisciplinary guide to researching Shakespeare's works, their history, their performance and their cultural significance.
Shakespeare-Specific Databases
- World Shakespeare Bibliography OnlineThe World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2013.
- Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
"This online edition was reviewed and selectively updated by the original editors in 2011. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included."
General Literature and Humanities Databases
- JSTOR [JSTOR] This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals, as well as books and primary sources published by various publishers and presses. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
- Project MUSE Premium This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals published by university presses and scholarly societies. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the social sciences and humanities.
- Web of Science [Web of Science] This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a platform that provides access to citations, and abstracts allowing for in-depth exploration of fields within the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from research journals, and provides search methods so users can navigate forwards and backwards through the literature.
- MLA International (EBSCO)"... a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics."
Selected Journals
- Multicultural Shakespeare Translation Appropriation and Performance'Multicultural Shakespeare developed into a publication mediating vigorous discussions on the adaptation of Shakespeare's texts, their ontology and cross-cultural significance. It created an opportunity to present the universal dimension of Shakespeare's works by focusing on their local values found in various cultures worldwide."
- Shakespeare'Shakespeare is a major peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles drawn from the best of current international scholarship on the most recent developments in Shakespearean criticism. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between the disciplines of Shakespeare in Performance Studies and Shakespeare in English Literature and Language."
- Shakespeare Quarterly"Housed and published by the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1972 and in association with George Washington University, SQ is the world's foremost journal focusing on all aspects of Shakespeare studies."
- Shakespeare Studies"An international volume of essays, studies and reviews dealing with the cultural history of early modern England and the place of Shakespeare's production in it."
- Upstart CrowCeased as of 2012.