ENG 411: Shakespeare

Experience Shakespeare on the Stage

  • The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.

  • Digital Theatre+ guides the learning experience with access to an ever-growing library of productions, workshops, interviews and analysis.

Course Viewing

 

Databases for English Literature

The following databases are strong choices for literature research. Access these and many others on Thrift Library's website under Databases A-Z.

Tip: To view databases by discipline, use the Group By: Category function.

  • Biography Nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. (Gale)

  • Bloom's Literature This resource contains more than 20,000 critical essays from over 500 literary journals and 2,300 scholarly and critical books, including 700 titles published by Bloom's Literary Criticism and Facts On File. Also included in the database are more than 13,000 biographies, 45,000 character entries, 5,000 synopses of literary works and hundreds of images and 1,160 videos. (Infobase)

  • Books & Authors Browse authors, titles, or genres to discover today’s popular fiction and non-fiction titles as well as the classics of yesterday. If you're wondering what to read next, check here first. Users will find over 300,000 book reviews from over 30 reputable sources. (Gale)

  • Credo Reference A comprehensive reference resource that includes images, audio files, videos, and more than 600 full-text reference books on most major subject areas. (Infobase)

  • Literature Criticism Online Literature Criticism Online offers over 1,500 volumes of digitized literary criticism. (Gale)

  • Literature A combination database that allows a search across several major Literature databases including Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series, and Twayne's Author Series. Also find the useful Gale Literary Index within Gale Literary Sources to search by author or title to identify multiple reference books in the Thrift Collection that address your needs. (Gale)

  • MLA International Bibliography This source on language and literature provides indexing to 4,400 journals going back to 1920 and countless books. Coverage includes many languages. (Ebsco)

MLA

For an overview on citations, including the resources listed below, visit LibraryDIY.

  • MLA Handbook A physical copy of the MLA handbook is available at Thrift Library.

  • MLA Tutorial Anderson students have access to tutorials on information literacy topics, including an overview on citations using

Reference Management

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

  • Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
  • Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.)
  • Search your entire library
  • Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.