Shakespeare

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• Westmount Collegiate Institute Library Catalogue (search our catalog)
  
  • Dewey Decimal Classification (where to browse)

  792     - Theatre
  822.33- Shakespeare
        eg/  Shakespeare's World and Work (3 v)
  942s   - England and Wales

• VPL Library Catalogues (restrict searches to our Bathurst/Clark or Dufferin/Clark branches)

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• EBSCO eBooks ca. 168,000+ fulltext books online - Login same as for EBSCO databases) - EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only
  • if searched within EBSCO Databases limit by Source Types (left column of search results) to eBooks only
  • eg/
  • shakespeare* (subject)
  • shakespeare* (subject) AND criticism OR analysis OR interpret* (subject) AND father* OR mother* OR son OR sons OR daughter* (no field selected)
  • hamlet (title) AND shakepeare* (no field selected) AND criticism OR analysis OR interpretation (no field selected)
  
  
• GALE eBooks in particular:
• Shakespeare for Students
• The Shakespeare Collection and Literature Resources Center (both in the bottom section of the GALE/INFOTRAC "Additional Products")
• eg/
  To find literary criticism on Hamlet in Literature Resources Center database


• Infobase : Bloom's Literary Criticism Collections
• Bloom's How to Write about Shakespeare
• Hamlet (Bloom's Guides)
• Hamlet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
• King Lear (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
• Othello (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
• The Tempest (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)


• Shakespeare at eNotes
• No Fear Shakespeare : The Plays Made Easy
• SparkNotes
• Britannica Online

• Curio.ca : CBC Documentaries(Browse by program title or search by keywords eg./ rum running canada) offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• NFB offline access available upon personal registration using your school email account
• Learn360 Multimedia Resources - pls. see Library for login info (or create new account)

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WCI Magazines / Newspapers / Journals Archives & Indexes(incl. all periodical sources and instructions)

• GALE Infotrac Databases
  • if only academic journals are required deselect all and then select Academic One File and/or Expanded Academic ASAP only.
  • More importantly then choose:
    • Shakespeare for Students, as well as
    • Literature Resources Center and/or The Shakespeare Collection (latter 2 are from the "ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS" section at the bottom). The "Additional Products" are searched individually.
      • eg./
        To find literary criticism on Hamlet in Literature Resources Center database

• EBSCO Databases EBSCO access extended to Apr30/2018 only (includes:)
• Academic Collection eBooks (ca. 165,000+ fulltext books online)
• Literary Reference Centre and Literary Reference Centre Plus - (literary criticism and literature resources)
• Advanced Placement (cross-curricular academic resources)

Sample Subject keywords to use:
eg/

• )
• )this example looks for the keywords "hamlet" and "criticism" in the subject field but skims book reviews (these usually have the word "book" in the title) out of the search results
• hamlet (subject) AND criticism (subject) NOT book review* (all text)

Source Types may be viewed by: All Results, eBooks, Magazines, Academic Journals, etc.

 

How to Find Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

How to Find News Articles

Newspapers & Other News Sites

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VPL eBooks, Databases and Other Resources

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Search Google Now
alternately use Advanced Search OR Google Scholar
eg/

Advanced Search:
critical analysis OR interpretation of hamlet NOT .com
hamlet "literary criticism" NOT .com
(in both examples Google has deleted the "." (period) in front of the "com" -- add this back in to not retrieve .com sites)

GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
shakespeare hamlet literary criticism OR analysis -[citation]
critical analysis OR interpretation of hamlet

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amlet : Literary Analysis

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