Resources in Literature:  Shakespeare in Context 

 

General

• Dobson, Michael and Stanley Wells.  The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.  Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.  2001.  Ref PR 2892.O94 2001

• Best, Michael.  Shakespeare’s Life & Times.  2001.   http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnoframes/intro/introsubj.html

 

• Campbell & Quinn. Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare.  New York: Crowell, 1966.  Ref PR2892.C3

 

• Crystal, David & Ben Crystal.  Shakespeares’s Words.  New York: Penguin, 2002.  Ref PR2892.C78 2002

 

• Oxford English Dictionary.  (D’Amour Library Digital Reference or Databases by Title)

 

Biographical

• Biography Resource Center Online,   (D’Amour Library database)

 

• British Writers.  New York: Scribner. 1979.  Ref PR85.B688

 

Historical

• Britannica Online.   (D’Amour Library database)
• Companion to Tudor Britain.  Ref DA315. C66 2004
• Stearns, Peter.  Encyclopedia of World History.  6^th ed.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.  Ref D21.E678 2001.

 

Cultural

• Encyclopedia of World Art.  New York: McGraw-Hill,  1962.  Ref N31. E533
• Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Timeline of Art History.  http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
• Sadie, Stanley.  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2^nd Ed.  New York: Grove, 2001.  Ref ML100.N48 2001.
• Turner, Jane.  The Dictionary of Art.  New York: Grove, 1996.  Ref  N31.D5 1996.  

http://0-www.groveart.com.wildpac.wnec.edu/index.html

 

Books

 

Use WILDPAC to find books by and about Shakespeare and his times.  Some useful Library of Congress Subject Headings are:

 

 

 

Shakespeare	Music England
Shakespeare criticisms and interpretations	Music 16th Century
England Social life and customs	Music 17th Century
Great Britain History Elizabeth	Songs England 16th Century
Great Britain History James I	Songs England 17th Century
Great Britain History Tudors	Songs English 16th Century
Great Britain History Stuarts	Songs English 17th Century
	Tudor Music
	Madrigal

 

 

Art British

Art England

Art English

Architecture England

Architecture Great Britain

Painting Great Britain

Portrait painting English

 

 

Articles & E-Books

NetLibrary:  

E-books by and about Shakespeare

 

Literary Reference Center

Articles about authors and their works

 

MLA International Bibliography

Articles providing critical analysis of Shakespeare’s works

 

JSTOR

Articles providing critical analysis of Shakespeare’s works

 

Iter Bibliography

Articles providing analysis of Shakespeare’s times

 

Web Sites

W. W. Norton.  Norton Anthology of English Literature: Topics Online.  W.W. Norton, 2005.  <http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/noa/audio_shakespeare.htm>