| Where to Start | Journal Articles |
| Criticism | Websites |
| Reference Books | Cite Your Sources |
| Suggested Subject Headings |
- Search the Literature Online (LION) database to find background, criticism, and selected web sites for study of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Try the Literature Resource Center database as well for criticism. Do a Title search for "Hamlet" and click on the "Literary Criticism, Articles, & Work Overviews" tab to find links to full-text literary criticism.
- Search the Library Catalog (see "Suggested Subject Headings" below).
- To dig deeper, search the MLA and Humanities Full-Text databases.
| Hamlet, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom | -- PR2807 .H26237 1990, and available through netLibrary |
| Hamlet: A Historical and Comparative Study | -- PR2807 .S76 1968 |
| Hamlet: New Critical Essays | -- PR2807 .H2657 2002 |
| Hamlet's Search for Meaning | -- PR2807 .K48 1982 |
| Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Hamlet: A Collection of Critical Essays | -- PR2807 .B46 1968 |
| Classified Shakespeare Bibliography | -- REF PR2894 .S64 1963 |
| Concise Encyclopedic Guide to Shakespeare | -- REF PR2892 .M39 1971 |
| The First Folio of Shakespeare | -- REF PR2751 .A15 1968 |
| Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare | -- REF PR2892 .S62 1973 |
| Shakespeare Commentary | -- REF PR2892 .B2 |
| William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence | -- REF PR2976 .W5354 1985 |
Use these terms to perform a subject search in the library's catalog. Be sure to browse through the headings list you get to see subtopics.
- Literature -- History and Criticism
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and Interpretation
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Hamlet
- Theater, England -- History
Use the following library databases to find journal articles about William Shakespeare, as well as biographical information, essays, and other critical and reference resources.
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Humanities Full-Text
Indexes articles under the subjects of archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. -
Literature Online (LION)
Fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 168 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. -
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. -
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database goes back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
Absolute Shakespeare: Hamlet Study Guide
Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Technology -- Online full-text resource to Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems
| Citing Sources | -- from the Duke University Libraries |
| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | -- RREF LB2369 .G52 2003 * |
* RREF stands for Ready Reference near the reference desk on the first floor.
Need more help finding resources? Email me at kowens@flagler.edu or visit the Library's Reference Desk.
Last Updated: September 03, 2008