Note: Many resources relating to Shakespeare are located in the PR2750-PR3112 sections of our collection.

BOOKS

Reference Collection (In-library use only)

Encyclopedia of World Drama
REF PN 1625 .M3 1984 vols. 1-4

English Literature Shakespeare, Magill Surveys
REF PR 2987 .E5

Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare
REF PR 2892 .S62 1973

How to Pronounce the Names in Shakespeare
REF PR 3081 .I65 1990

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
REF PN 1625 .M3 1984

Shakespeare Criticism (15 vols.)
REF PR 2965 .S43

Who's Who in Shakespeare  
REF PR 2892 .S76 1989

General Collection (May be checked out)

Consult the PVCC Online Catalog to find books on Shakespeare.

Follow these steps:

From the PVCC library home page, click on “Library Online Catalog”
On the pull-down menu, select "Subject Keyword"
In the text box beside that, type a subject search phrase, such as one of the following:

Othello (or other play title)
Shakespeare bibliography
Shakespeare biography
Shakespeare comedy
Shakespeare history
Shakespeare interpretation
Shakespeare quotations
Shakespeare sonnets
Shakespeare tragedy

E-Books (For use online)

E-Books Collection
(complete text of books, accessed on campus, or remotely with activated student I.D.)

Follow these steps:
To find e-Books relating to Shakespeare, do the following:
Click on PVCC's online catalog to do a “keyword” search on your particular subject and include ebrary as one of the search terms. ie. Shakespeare AND ebrary.
Select one of the titles having an ebrary icon, and click on the “Paradise Valley online access” link.

For example:
Click on the online catalog; enter a keyword search for Shakespeare and ebrary, and one of the titles that appears is: Four Comedies, edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan, eBrary electronic book

DATABASES

http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/databases/artlit.html

Follow these steps:
From Library home page, click on Databases, then Art and Humanities (on the right, under Categories), or from any website, enter the following url:
http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/library/databases/artlit.html

Or, explore the following general databases

Academic Search Premier
A large database, covering multiple disciplines (e.g.: biology, education, law, psychology, religion, etc.). Includes scholarly journals and popular magazines, covering 8,000 journal titles, 4,700 of which are full text.

Gale's Literary Index
References the entire Gale series, giving critical essays and biographical information on writers

Literature Resource Center-LRC
Contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, covering more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors

 

WEBSITES

If you need help with these please ask a librarian!