Quick Reference Guide

(Bound volumes are found on Index Tables – Library 1st floor.)

ESSAY & GENERAL LITERATURE INDEX (1900 – present).  A listing of essays published in collections.  Subjects include topics of broad interest to students of Shakespeare as well as criticism of specific works.

HUMANITIES INDEX (1974 – present).  Lists articles from over 350 periodicals devoted to classical studies, folklore, history, literature, performing arts, etc.  Provides detailed lists of articles written about Shakespearean works, performances, and criticisms.

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (1970 – present).  Lists journal articles and books on linguistics, literature, and folklore by date and geographic location.  Includes those aspects of Shakespeare.

(Available on the HCCC Library Website.)

LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER (1990 – present).  Contains full-text articles on authors’ lives, criticisms and overviews of their works, lists of additional print and Web resources, and literary/historical timelines. 

WILSON SELECT PLUS  (1994 – present).  Contains full-text articles on humanities, literature, science, education and business. 

(Bound, current and microfilm available – Library 1st floor.)

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY (1950 – present).  Contains articles on all aspects of Shakespeare and his world.  Includes an annual list of all works on Shakespeare published internationally.

THE EXPLICATOR (1969 – present).  Contains literary criticism articles on all Western literature, including Shakespeare.

(Reference Area – Library 1st floor.)

A Complete Concordance or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, and Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.  Ref PR2892 .B34 1953.  Alphabetical listing of Shakespeare’s words, phrases, and passages and which work they appear in.

A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance.  Ref PR2976 .R82 1984.  Identifies and explains the hundreds of double entendres and sexual puns that Shakespeare used.

A Dictionary of the Characters & Proper Names in the Works of Shakespeare; With Notes on the Sources & Dates of the Plays & Poems.  Ref PR2892 .S67 1970.

English Literature, Shakespeare.  Ref PR2987 .E5 1980.  Gives extensive background information about each of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays.

Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare.  Ref  PR2892 .C3.  Over 2,700 entries provide basic information on Shakespeare’s life, works, Elizabethan history, characters in the plays, theatrical production, and literary criticism.

Shakespeare A to Z.  Ref PR2892 .B69 1990.  Nearly 3,000 entries cover every play, poem, character, important people in Shakespeare’s life, theatrical and literary terms, famous actors and actresses, famous Shakespeare scholars, and geographical places featured in Shakespeare’s life and works.

Shakespeare for Students Books II and III.  Ref  PR2987 .S47.  Critical essays on Shakespeare’s most popular and frequently taught plays.

The Shakespeare Handbook.  Ref PR2976 .S3374 1987.  Covers Shakespeare’s life, the Elizabethan era, Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, the plays, great Shakespearean actors and actresses, the poetry, music and song, and film adaptations of the plays.

Shakespearean Criticism.  Ref PR2965 .S43 1989.  Multivolume work containing literary criticism articles and book excerpts from the 1500s to the present.

Shakespeare’s Language: a Glossary of Unfamiliar Words in Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems.   Ref PR2892 .S447 1999

William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence.  PR2976 .W5354 1985 Historical and cultural background of Shakespeare’s works as well as his effects on popular culture from his time to the present.