LibGuides: ENC 1102: Finding Literary Criticism & More (Dale Mabry): Shakespeare's poems and plays

Shakespeare's plays: background info

Shakespeare Center in Blooms Literature A multimedia guide to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Includes overview of every play, performance videos, library of criticism from the sixteenth century to the present, and material covering Shakespeare's life and times, his contemporaries, his stage, his language, and more.

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Plays In the library and online as an eBook. Examines all 39 of Shakespeare's plays, as well as Shakespeare's life, style, technique, and influences.
Call Number: PR2894 .C75 2015
Shakespeare for Students (eBook) All's well that ends well. Antony and Cleopatra. As you like it. The comedy of errors. Coriolanus. Hamlet. Henry IV part one. Henry V. Henry VI part three. Julius Caesar. King Lear. Lucrece. Macbeth. Measure for measure. The merchant of Venice. The merry wives of Windsor. A midsummer night's dream. Much ado about nothing. Othello. Richard II. Richard III. Romeo and Juliet. The sonnets. The taming of the shrew. The tempest. Twelfth night. Venus and Adonis. The winter's tale.

BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose) The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare as presented on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Funded by HCC Libraries perpetual license.

Shakespeare's poetry: background info

Shakespeare Center in Blooms Literature A multimedia guide to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Includes overview of every play, performance videos, library of criticism from the sixteenth century to the present, and material covering Shakespeare's life and times, his contemporaries, his stage, his language, and more.

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets In the library and online. Each essay in The Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Sonnets is devoted to a single sonnet and provides an in-depth critical analysis of the sonnet's historical significance, literary technique and discusses its meaning to a contemporary audience.
Call Number: REF PR2848.A2 S35 2014
Shakespeare for Students (eBook) All's well that ends well. Antony and Cleopatra. As you like it. The comedy of errors. Coriolanus. Hamlet. Henry IV part one. Henry V. Henry VI part three. Julius Caesar. King Lear. Lucrece. Macbeth. Measure for measure. The merchant of Venice. The merry wives of Windsor. A midsummer night's dream. Much ado about nothing. Othello. Richard II. Richard III. Romeo and Juliet. The sonnets. The taming of the shrew. The tempest. Twelfth night. Venus and Adonis. The winter's tale.

Literary criticism in article databases

Different from background information, literary criticism can be defined as analysis and interpretation of literary works by scholars who are writing for an academic audience. These online databases are especially helpful for finding literary criticism articles.

Bloom's Literature (Infobase Publishing) Browse the topics - or enter your keyword(s) or title or name. Under the Criticism tab, find critical (scholarly) articles.
Literature (Gale) Literary criticism, reviews, primary sources and literary works, and more. Funding source: Statewide allocation. Here is a tutorial.
Literary Reference Plus (EBSCO) A database of reference entries, journal articles, and other information on literary works and authors. Funding source: Statewide allocation. Here is a tutorial.

Literary criticism in Primo, the library catalog

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How to find literary criticism articles in Primo, the library catalog, and the literary research databases Bloom's Literature and Gale Literature. Courtesy of Plant City Library.

ENC 1102: Finding Literary Criticism & More (Dale Mabry): Shakespeare's poems and plays

Shakespeare's plays: background info

Shakespeare's poetry: background info

Literary criticism in article databases

Literary criticism in Primo, the library catalog

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