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The Central Libraries > Mid-Manhattan Library > Language & Literature ONLINE SHAKESPEARE - CRITICAL MATERIALThis list focuses on fulltext online criticism. It does not include the works themselves, performance studies, organizations, festivals, or visual resources. You will, however, easily find that information by following some of the links below, especially those of Mr. Terry Gray. Two other useful metasites are those of Jack Lynch (Rutgers University) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ and Alan Liu (University of California at Santa Barbara) http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Terry Gray's Shakespearehttp://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ An annotated guide, including works, study guides, quotes, bibliographies, timelines, genealogy charts, theatrical studies, biography, criticism of general and individual plays, 'best sites' and more. Internet Public Libraryhttp://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=sha-9 Annotated criticism sortable by play. Early Modern Literary Studieshttp://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html Includes of critical discussions of issues relating to Shakespeare The Elizabethan ReviewA strong pro-Oxford stance on the authorship issue. See also The Ever Reader: The Online Magazine of the Shakespeare Oxford Society www.shakespeare-oxford.com/?page_id=21 Shakespeare and Renaissance Association [of West Virginia]: Selected Papers (SRASP)http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/ An electronic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and culture. This annual journal publishes the best papers from the yearly West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance conference. Connotationshttp://www.shkspr.uni-muenster.de/ 50 fulltext contributions to Shakespearean criticism. Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studieshttp://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/index.html An interdisciplinary refereed journal specializing in early-modern English literary and historical scholarship and in the critical methodologies of these fields. From 1996, volume 1 to the present, with indexes. *** The material above is freely available to all, from any PC. The biggest drawback is that most are not searchable - you must skim through title lists and indexes, though they are brief enough not to be overwhelming. But these sources supplement and do not replace the book collections and bibliographies built up over the years at libraries, and the paid subscription databases, which are searchable, that those libraries maintain. In addition to the 4,100+ book and videos by and about Shakespeare, NYPL's databases include:
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