Your Librarian for ENG211: Helpful Resources for your Research

Gale Literature - The largest of the literary databases is a good starting place for conducting literature based research. A direct link to Gale Literature is HERE. The video tutorial below gives an overview of using Gale Literature.

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Literary Reference Center - This database also contains a vast amount of literary information and may be accessed directly HERE.

Oxford Reference Online - Contains a number of reference sources on a number of topics and subjects. To access the entire Oxford collection, click HERE. Also, click the titles below to access specific titles in this collection:

• An A-Z Guide to Shakespeare
• Oxford Companion to Shakespeare [for specific works in this resource, click on the titles below]
  • “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
  • “Romeo and Juliet”
  • “Othello”
  • “Merchant of Venice”
  • “Macbeth”
  • “Richard III”

Shakespeare (Johann Gottfried Herder, ed. Gregory Moore)

Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom (Cesar Lombardi Barber, Stephen Greenblatt)

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance