Barnard Library Research Guide
Librarian: Jenna FreedmanBC3997
Senior Seminar: Late Shakespeare
Professor Peter Platt
Fall 2005King Lear in the Storm
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau
Joshua Reynolds copy after (CA. 1842)
Smithsonian American Art MuseumThis guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk at any point in your research.
Reference Resources | Criticism in CLIO
Criticism in Other Databases | Important Journals
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REFERENCE RESOURCES
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books are useful for:
- an overview of a topic
- background information
- bibliographies
The reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the second floor.
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance CB361 .E52 1999 The American Historical Association's guide to historical literature
A listing of "best books" that covers all aspects of history (political, social, intellectual, and military). An excellent starting place if you need a couple of background books about England in the 16th century...D20 .A55 1995g Tudor England : an encyclopedia DA315 .T753 2001g Daily life in Elizabethan England DA320 .S56 1995 Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world: Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America DA357 .W34 1999 Bibliography of British history, Stuart period, 1603-1714 DA375 .D25 1928g Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000 HN373 .E63 2001
Shakespeare’s non-standard English : a dictionary of his informal language PR2892 .B56 2004 Shakespeare A to Z : the essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life and times, and more PR2892 .B69 1990 Shakespeare-lexicon : a complete dictionary of all the English words, phrases and constructions in the works of the poet PR2892 .S4 1902 Shakespeare's world and work : an encyclopedia for students PR2892 .S56 2001 Shakespeare
Although dated (published in 1978) this is still a very useful and unique bibliography. Arranged by topic, it provides citations to social/historical/philosophical works, textual criticism, and criticisms of specific plays. Best of all, for each play it often has a section devoted to works about specific characters, or particular scenes, or language and imagery.PR2894 .B48 1978g The essential Shakespeare : an annotated bibliography of major modern studies PR2894 .C53 1993g Shakespeare : an annotated bibliography PR2894 .R66 1992g Shakespeare, a bibliographical guide
Bibliographic essays; includes an essay about Shakespeare in Performance and essays about specific plays, including The Problem Plays, Othello, King Lear, etc.PR2894 .S5 1990g Shakespeare's world : Renaissance intellectual contexts : a selective, annotated guide, 1966-1971
This bibliography examines Shakespeare's "world of ideas"(p.ix).PR2910 .E38 1979g Who's who in Shakespeare's England PR2910 .P3 1999 Shakespeare and feminist criticism : an annotated bibliography and commentary PR2965 .K76 1991g Shakespearean criticism
This set reprints excerpts of criticism from the 16th century to current day. The set is an easy way to compile citations to articles and reviews; it also provides an overview of how scholarship has changed over time concerning Shakespeare. A wonderful starting place if you know what play you are working on, but haven't decided what specific aspect you want to investigate. The index in the last volume points you to the volumes containing information about your play/topic.PR2965 .S43 William Shakespeare : his world, his work, his influence PR2976 .W5354 1985 Shakespeare and minorities : an annotated bibliography, 1970-2000 PR2992 .K84 2001g Literary Index
You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University LibraryWeb.
- CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Columbia University Libraries and includes Barnard Library's holdings.
Title search: leave off the initial article (The, An, La, etc.)
Author search: put last name, then first name
Keyword search: use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the More Limits or Post Limits options
- Finding a book about a person or a subject: start with a Keyword search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for useful subject headings and do a Subject search.
- Finding commentaries or criticism of an author's works: do a Subject search for the name of the author and look for the subdivision Criticism and interpretation:
e.g. A subject search for "shakespeare" finds a list of subject headings which includes
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Biography
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation- Reference books on Shakespeare can be found in PR2754-3081. (Overview of the Library of Congress Classification Outline). Books that are entirely about a particular author are shelved next to works by that author; for criticism on an author, find the correct call number for the author and look on the shelf near it.
- Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the location Barnard.
Cambridge Journals Online
Full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press.Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations)
Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.Early English Books Online
Full-page images of most books published in English and the English-speaking world prior to 1700.Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Full-page images of most books published in English and the English-speaking world prior to 1700.Essay and General Literature Index
Use to find essays published in anthologies.The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Collection of full-text primary sources relating to the history of women.International Index to the Performing Arts
Multidisciplinary index to the performing arts.The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Full-text encyclopedia of literary theory and criticism from Plato to modern times.JSTOR
LION: Literature Online
Full-text articles from more than 322 scholarly journals.
This includes an enormous number of electronic full-text writings (the texts), including "Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."LION also connects to ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Literature and Language). ABELL, like MLA Bibliography, provides citations to monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. All aspects and periods of English literature are covered. In addition to citations, there are 60 journals which provide the full-text. To search ABELL, from the LION home page choose Search Secondary Sources. Use ABELL in conjunction with the MLA Bibliography for a thorough literature search.
The index for literature. Consider limiting to English language materials, since the MLA is international in coverage. The MLA indexes essays in books, periodical literature, and dissertations. Some material indexed by the MLA may not be at Columbia; consider checking NYPL or NYU's collections, or trying BorrowDirect or InterLibrary Loan.Project Muse
Full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences.ProQuest Direct
Full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers.Women's Studies International
Citations for materials related to women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism.WorldCat
WorldCat is a composite online catalog of the collections of 24,000 libraries, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media.
Shakespeare quarterly.
BUTLER STACKS PR2885 .S63
BARNARD PERIODICALS AREA
One issue of each volume (issue #5) is a bibliography of works published during that year.
Full text available from JSTOR 01/01/1950 to 2000
Full text available from Literature Online (LION) Spring 1988 to Fall 1994
Full text available from Literature Online (LION) Spring 1995 to Winter 2000
Full text available from Literature Online (LION) Winter 2001 to 6 months ago
Full text available from Project Muse Spring 2001 to present
Full text available from ProQuest Research Library 01/01/1988 to 12/01/2004Shakespeare studies.
BUTLER STACKS PR2885 .S64
BUTLER STACKS 823SG Sh14
BARNARD PR2885 .S64
Full text available from IIPA 1965 to 1970
Full text available from IIPA 1975 to 1988
Full text available from IIPA 1999 to 2003
Full text available from Literature Online (LION) 01/01/1997 to present
Full text available from PCI Full Text 1965 to 1988
Full text available from ProQuest Research Library 01/01/1997 to 01/01/2004
Full text available from Wilson OmniFile 01/01/1995 to presentShakespeare survey
BARNARD PR2888 .C3
BUTLER STACKS PR2888 .C3
MILSTEIN LIBRARY PR2888 .C3
InterLibrary Loan
Obtain books and articles from other libraries when they are not available at Columbia. This service can take 2-3 weeks for delivery of the material.BorrowDirect
Students, faculty and staff of Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University may request books directly from each others' collections. Delivery of material usually takes less than one week. Use for books not at Columbia, or if all copies at Columbia are checked out.NYPL's CATNYP
The NYPL Research Libraries are non-circulating; if they say they have the book or journal, you should be able to find it there. Give yourself plenty of time at the library, since material must be paged.NYU's BobCat
Barnard and Columbia students can use material at NYU's Bobst Library by showing a current ID. Material may be used in the Library only.
Created 02/01 by Cynthia A. Johnson
Revised by Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services/Zine Librarian
Updated 10/12/05
