A Shakespeare Webliography
Electronic Shakespeares
Provided by Dr Susan Brock of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
How to find things
Search Engines and Directories
- AltaVista
A search engine which selects web sites automatically, and lists them in order by the number of keywords in the title or text, and can answer simple direct questions.
- Yahoo UK and Ireland
A directory which organises sites into categories. For Shakespeare see Arts/Humanities ->Literature->Playwrights -> Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- HotBot
A directory which organises sites into categories.
- Inference Find
Searches several search engines in parallel, sorts the results and provides a single page of matches.
- Ask Jeeves
Uses natural language to ask for information. It provides answers from its own database as wells as links through other search engines.
Metasites and Gateways
- The McGill Shakespeare Resources Page
Includes a section on early modern culture and reviews of Shakespeare on CD-ROM as well as the usual links.
- Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet, by Terry Gray
Aims to be 'a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet'. The BEST Shakespeare metasite.
- Internet Shakespeare Editions: Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance, by Michael Best
Includes links to texts, material on performance (including film), criticism, study materials and courses, as well as general renaissance sites.
- Tools for Studying Shakespeare and Contemporaries
Includes 'Shakespeare Exercises for Electronic Text' and 'How to Find Books and Articles on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries'.
- The Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Links to articles from electronic journals some of which have to be paid for.
- HUMBUL (The Humanities Bulletin Board)
For Shakespeare see Literature -> Voice of the Shuttle ->Literature (English) -> Renaissance and 17th Century ->Authors, Works and Projects -> Shakespeare
Libraries
- COPAC: National Online Public Access Catalogue
Unified catalogues of some of the largest research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- NISS
See Reference -> Library and Information Services -> Library OPACs Access to OPACs (online public access catalogues) in the UK.
- British Library
Access to its online public access catalogue.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
General information about the collections etc., including teaching materials from its Education Dept. At present the Library catalogue is not available on-line.
- The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
The University of Birmingham's library catalogue which contains the entire holdings of the Shakespeare Institute Library. A text-based version is available via Telnet at library.bham.ac.uk.
- The Furness Shakespeare Library, University of Pennsylvania
Library resources are being scanned and made available in full-text facsimiles
Susan Brock
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
October 1999
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