Evaluating the Sources You Found
Reminders:
- Sources should be scholarly
- i.e., by an academic and published by an academic publisher; not some rando writing about Shakespeare for some content farm on the Web
- Sources should probably be published after 1990
- otherwise it's likely to be difficult to read and/or not incorporating the latest theory and scholarship on Shakespeare
- Sources should not primarily be about an adaptation or production of your play
- For example, "“We Are Such Stuff”: Absolute Feminine Power vs. Cinematic Myth-Making in Julie Taymor's Tempest (2010)" would probably not be the best source for this assignment, since it's about a movie version
- Sources should not be about how your play relates to themes in another work
- For example, "A Reference to Shakespeare's Othello in Fadia Faqir's Willow Trees Don't Weep" would probably not be the best source for this assignment, since it's primarily about a book you and your classmates probably haven't read
- Sources should not be book reviews
- However, if you find a glowing review of a book of essays about your play, you might want to see if the Library has that book!
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