Shakespeare: Your Go-To Resource for All Things Bard: Reference

includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography as well as full-text journal articles.

includes PoemFinder, PlayFinder, SpeechFinder, StoryFinder and EssayFinder

Allows you to search a wide range of authoritative reference sources.

Compiled by one of the best-known authorities on the Bard's works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and influence on later ages. It includes entries on the plays and the major characters, on Shakespeare's life and his contemporaries, on actors from Edmund Kean to Peter O'Toole, on theatres and directors, plus comments on Shakespeare by later authors such as Jane Austen, Dr Johnson, and Bernard Levin.

From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of 100 internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Special feature entries on every play are included.

literary criticism on U.S., English and world authors.