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• MLA International Bibliography
  Scholarly articles in literature and linguistics. Indexes over 6,000 national and international journals, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. From the Modern Language Association. 1926-current; selective coverage 1886-.
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  Subjects include:

  • Literature and drama (English and world)
  • Linguistics
  • Literary Theory
  • Folklore
  • Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy

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• Literature Resource Center
  Biographical essays on more than 100,000 authors and criticism and interpretation of plays, novels, poetry and short stories.

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  • Gale Literature Resource Center

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  The Resource Center includes Contemporary Authors Online, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, plus selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's Literature Criticism and For Students Series, which are comprised of Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

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• British Periodicals
  The searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.

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  • Early British Periodicals

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  The searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.

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• American Periodicals Series 1740-1900
  Digitized images of over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1741-1900. Titles range from the scientific journal Medical Repository to Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. 1740-1900.
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  Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

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• World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
  Summarizes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media related to Shakespeare. 1962 to present.
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  Covers over eighty languages and represents every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. Indexes several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings. What the Bibliography includes:

  • Books, articles, and dissertations entirely about Shakespeare;
  • Books, articles, and dissertations that include a substantial discussion of Shakespeare (e.g., books and dissertations that devote a chapter--or its equivalent--to Shakespeare);
  • Stage productions of Shakespeare's works by a professional or semiprofessional theatrical group (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, translator, dramaturg, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, and music);
  • Reviews of books entirely or substantially about Shakespeare;
  • Reviews of professional or semiprofessional stage productions of Shakespeare's works;
  • Films of Shakespeare productions (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, cinematography, and music);
  • New stage, musical, dance, and video adaptations of Shakespeare's works (in listing personnel, only the following are recorded: those with speaking roles, the author and/or translator of the adaptation, choreographer, composer, dramaturg, director, assistant director, and individuals responsible for sets, costumes, lighting, and music).

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