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This subject guide contains links to resources that support English, literature, and writing coursework. This includes databases, digital archives, media, professor websites, and other resources.
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Find Articles & Literary Criticism
- Biography in ContextLearn more about the world's most influential people. Do a person search using their name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowFind up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
- MLA International BibliographyBibliographic index to scholarly literature and language research from journals, series, monographs, dissertations, and bibliographies. Links to some full text.
- Understanding Shakespeare (JSTOR)Connecting digital texts from the Folger Shakespeare Library with articles on JSTOR.
Pick a play. Choose a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR that reference the line.
Find Media
- Alexander Street Video This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online (AVON), also referred to as Alexander Street Video, is a multidisciplinary database offering access to tens of thousands of full-length streaming video titles including documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and more. Videos are transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type.
- Global Shakespeares: Video & Performance Archive - Open AccessThe Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field.
- Media Resources Library GuideThis Library Guide is designed to help you find media materials and information about media in the Lesley Libraries, online, and from other sources
- Wikimedia CommonsGet full access to media, including images, sounds, and videos. Most of these images have been uploaded by users for use on Wikipedia, but most of the content is available under a Creative Commons license, which is provided on the site.