Databases to Search for Material about Shakespeare

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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online - The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides annotated entries for important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1968 and early 2003. The scope is international.

MLA International Bibliography - "The MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers"

Literature Resource Center - "The Literature Resource Center is built ont he Gale Group´s three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers: Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol.95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol.95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars."

JSTOR - (select All Literature Journals)

EBSCO - (select Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier)

Project Muse - This database provides full text access to over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanitites, social sciences and matematics.

LION (Literature Online) - "A fully searchable library of more than 300,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources."