English 342: Shakespeare

This Research Guide guides you through the Library's resources for literary research on Shakespeare.

Planning Your Search Terms

What are you going to search for? For example:

"measure for measure" in search box with Name of Work selected in drop-down

 

After reading some background on your play, what themes do you think might interest you? For example:

Advanced search with religion as keyword and "measure for measure" as name of work

MLA search: shakespeare in first box with SA Primary Subject Author selected; othello in second box with SK primary subject work selected; race in third box

 

Can you think of any other words that might describe the theme you're interested in? For example:

Advanced search with synonyms for religion in keyword field and "measure for measure" in name of work field

 

Boolean Operators

Want to know more about using OR and AND ("Boolean operators") in your search? Check out this video:

 

Subjects: English
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