Most items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading
To find recommended reading in the Short Loan Collection, select the Course Material search. Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course search box, and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 315. Click search.

Full Text Articles 

These items are full-text e-resources in the Short Loan Collection. You must be logged on with NetID and password to gain access.

Course readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.

Kawai, Slouchier. "The taming of the shrewd critics who talk wild of The Wild-Goose Chase." Hot questrists after the English Renaissance : essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries : in commemoration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Shakespeare Society of Japan. Ed. Yasunari Takahashi. New York : AMS Press, 2000. 53-67.

Play Texts

The full text of these plays is available via Literature Online.  You must be logged on with NetID and Password. 

Voyager Searches
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The following searches are Subject Heading searches

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Authors' names may also be used as a Subject Heading search to find books about them and their work, e.g.

Reference Books
For more information about reference books, and a more extensive list, see Reference Resources for English

Backscheider, Paula R., ed. Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists : first series. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1989.

Bowers, Fredson, ed. Jacobean and Caroline dramatists. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1987.

Dressen, Alan C., ed. A dictionary of stage directions in English drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Hattaway, Michael, ed. A companion to English renaissance literature and culture. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2001.

Kinney, Arthur F., ed. A companion to Renaissance drama. Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
[also available as an e-book. You must be logged on with NetID and Password]

Owen, Susan J., ed. A companion to Restoration drama. Malden, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Patridge, Eric. Shakespeare's bawdy. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
[also available as an e-book. You must be logged on with NetID and Password]

N.B. Other glossaries can be found by searching Voyager - use the following Subject Heading search.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Language Glossaries, etc.

Richetti, John, ed. Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr., Patrick Cheney, and Andrew Hadfield, eds. Early modern English drama : a critical companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Wroughton, John. Longman companion to the Stuart Age, 1603-1714. London ; New York: Longman, 1997

Bibliographies
Bibliographies list references to books and serial articles. See an explanation of how they work. All references must be checked on Voyager. Enter the title of the book or the title of the serial to see if the Library has it

Duggan, Margaret M. English literature and backgrounds, 1660-1700 : a selective critical guide. 2 vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.

Loxley, James. Complete critical guide to Ben Jonson. New York: Routledge, 2001
[also available as an e-book. You must be logged on with NetID and Password]

Nilsen, Don Lee Fred. Humor in British literature, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration : a reference guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Spector, Robert Donald. Backgrounds to restoration and eighteenth-century English literature : an annotated bibliographical guide to modern scholarship. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Database Searches
For help with using databases, please contact the Subject Librarian

The following databases will provide references to material on all authors and topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these databases

Early English Books Online - digitized images of titles from 1475 - 1700.

ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online - full text digitized images of titles from 1701-1800. Fully text-searchable.

ABELL+FT - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters and journal articles. Many journal articles are full text.

MLA International Bibliography - retrieves bibliographic references to books, book chapters, and journal articles. It has a higher proportion of book chapters than ABELL+FT. 
Use the symbol to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided through the Voyager catalogue record. 

World Shakespeare Bibliography - the most comprehensive and in-depth source of reference, an online version of the annual bibliography from the Shakespeare Quarterly.

Oxford Reference Online - click on the Literature link to find e-books of The Oxford companion to Shakespeare, and A dictionary of Shakespeare.

 Internet Resources
You must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites

Luminarium - English Literature: Early 17th Century. Includes Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher and Shirley.

PeoplePlay UK - a guided tour of Renaissance and Restoration drama, from the Theatre Museum, National Museum of the Performing Arts.

The English Renaissance in Context - multimedia tutorials on Shakespeare and Early Modern materials [books, bookmaking, publishing] using scanned materials from the Furness Shakespeare Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

Early Modern Literary Studies - a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. This is a special issue on Middleton.

Ben Jonson Journal - online publication from the Department of English, University of Nevada.