Shakespeare
Sample Call Numbers
Sample Subject Headings
Library Catalogs
Sample Materials
Research Databases
Relevant Journals
Selected Web Pages and Digital Archives
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Sample Call Numbers
Elizabethan Era
English Literature -- Drama
English Literature – English Renaissance
History of Great Britain – Tudors 1485-1603
History of Great Britain – Elizabethan Age
History of Great Britain – Early Stuarts
Dramatic Representation – The Theater
Dramatic Representation – The Theater Renaissance
Dramatic Representation – The Theater Modern |
PR421-(429)
PR621-744
PR2199-3195
DA310-360
DA350-360
DA385-398
PN2000-3307
PN2171-2179
PN2181-2193 |
Sample Subject Headings
Start by searching the catalog by keyword. Use whatever terms you think best describe your topic. When you find a record that matches what you are looking for, view the record and see what subject headings were used. Then search again using that term as a subject search.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Comedies
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Encyclopedias
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film and video adaptations
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Tragedies
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth--Sources
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Theater and society--England--History--17th century
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Theater--England--History--16th century
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Theater--England--London--History
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Globe Theatre (London, England : 1599-1644)
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Library Catalogs
Von Canon Library Catalog
Washington and Lee Catalog
VMI Preston Library Catalog
Rockbridge Public Library Catalog (incl. BV Branch)
WorldCat Database
Sample Materials
Acting funny: comic theory and practice in Shakespeare's...
The action to the word: structure and style in...tragedy
The best actors in the world Shakespeare and...
The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare studies
Christian ritual and the world of Shakespeare's tragedies
A companion to Shakespeare's works
Costumes and settings for Shakespeare's plays
The death of the actor: Shakespeare on page and stage
A dictionary of Shakespeare
Elizabethan drama and the viewer's eye
Everybody's Shakespeare: reflections...on the tragedies
Eyewitnesses of Shakespeare: first hand accounts...
Fancy's images: contexts, settings, and perspectives...
The Globe restored: a study of the Elizabethan theater
Hamlet in purgatory
His infinite variety; major Shakespearean criticism...
Imagining Shakespeare: a history of texts and visions
Indirections: Shakespeare and the art of illusion
An introduction to Shakespeare: the dramatist in...context
King Lear: text, sources, criticism
Music from the age of Shakespeare a cultural history
The Norton Shakespeare
Othello as tragedy:...problems of judgment and feeling
Power on display: the politics of Shakespeare's genres
Reinventing Shakespeare: a cultural history…
Rescripting Shakespeare: the text, the director...
Richard's himself again: a stage history of Richard III
Shadowplay: the hidden beliefs and coded politics
Shakespeare, a selective bibliography of modern criticism
Shakespeare and modern theatre: the performance of...
Shakespeare by stages: an historical introduction
The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642 |
PR 2981 .A28 1994
PR 2983 .Y6 1990
e-Book
PR 2976 .C29
REMOTE PR 2983 .C69
e-Book
REMOTE PR 3091 .W48
PR 3091 .B8 1991
e-Book
PR 651 .D4
PR 2983 .M326 1993
REMOTE PR 3091 .E95
PR 2976 .f58 1990
PR 2920 .H6
PR 2807 .G69 2001
PR 2976 .S45 1964
PR 2959 .S15 O74 2003
REMOTE PR 3069 .D57 D3
PR 3095 .H95 1996
PR 2819 .A2 H27 1962
e-Book
PR 2756 .G74 1997
PR 2829 .A83
REMOTE PR 3017 .T46
PR 2965 .T39 1989
PR 3100 .D47 2002
PR 2821 .c65 1992
PR 3017 .A687 2005
Z 8811 .W85 1988
PR 3100 .S52 2001
PR 3095 .K56 2003
PR 3095 .G85 2004 |
Research Databases
Academic Search Complete
ArchiveGrid
Bridgeman Art Library
Cambridge Companions
Camio
ClasePeriodica
Credo Reference
Dictionary of Literary Biography
eBook Collection
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Fuente Académica
HighWire Press
Humanities International Complete
JSTOR
JURN
Literature Resources from Gale
MasterFILE Premier
MLA
National Gallery Collection
OAISter
Oxford English Dictionary
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Scribner Writer's Series
Twayne Author's Series
Wiley Online Library
Women's Studies International
WorldCat
Relevant Journals
Shakespeare
Shakespeare Bulletin
Shakespeare Quarterly
Shakespeare in Southern Africa
Shakespeare Studies
Renaissance Forum
Renaissance Papers
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Studies
Renaissance and Reformation
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Notebook
London Journal
Early Modern Literary Studies
These are just examples. To find more, or to look for a specific journal/magazine, use the JournalFinder tool on the Von Canon Library homepage. The Washington and Lee Library has a similar tool called PeriodicalFinder. The VMI Library has a similar tool called JournalLocator.
Selected Webpages & Digital Archives
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance (Internet Shakespeare Editions)
Primary Sources Archive (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Folger Shakespeare Library
Luminarium - Anthology of English Literature
Shakespeare’s Staging
Shakespeare Illustrated
Shakespeare’s Globe Theater (The Virtual Globe)
Shakespeare on Television: A Bibliography in Criticism
Shakespeare Around the Globe
Criticism Early Editors of Shakespeare