ENLS 257: Shakespeare: Recommended Databases

Literature reference database rich with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about authors from all time periods and genres.

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Literature Criticism Online brings together 10 of the most acclaimed literary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. Plus, it matches the familiar look and feel of the print originals. Databases included: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review

MLA is the primary research database for literary studies. It indexes books, journal articles, and other materials from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.

An archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.

Contains citations, abstracts, and some full text of scholarship on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.