Research Guides: ENGL 341: Shakespeare: Articles/Streaming Videos

Useful Databases and Websites for this Course

Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 4,450 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
Gender Studies Database
This database combines the Womens Studies International and the Mens Studies databases to provide coverage of gender related scholarship.
Historical Abstracts
Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.
JSTOR
Provides access to the complete backfiles of more than 1,600 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s. Over 46 million pages are now available.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to 3,000+ journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, etc.
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.

Library Account Login

Use the button to find out what books and articles you have ordered via Summit, WorldCat and Interlibrary Loan.

How To Find Articles

If an article is not available in full-text, click the "Find It!" button.

This will check if we have access through a different database and our print collection.

If we do not have access, you will be given an option to order it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Fill out the form and click "Submit." It takes about 2 business days to get articles.

Shakespeare Streaming Videos

BBC Shakespeare Plays
Willamette has access to 37 BBC Shakespeare Plays through Ambrose Video. Shakespeare is rightly called the greatest playwright for the soaring beauty of his language, for his profound insight into human nature, for the truths he dramatized and for the realism of the characters he created.

Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Includes more than 70,000 video titles, including the films and series listed below.
Michael Wood: In Search of Shakespeare
Excellent recent documentary following historical sources about Shakespeare's life.
Shakespeare Uncovered
Each episode combines history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of a celebrated host to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Shakespeare in Perspective
Series of videos examining the context and details of most of Shakespeare's plays.
All is True
Kenneth Branagh’s All Is True is a portrait of William Shakespeare during the last three years of his life, as he leaves London and returns to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can customize Google Scholar to recognize Willamette-owned materials (visit our Google Scholar page for more info).

ENGL 341: Shakespeare: Articles/Streaming Videos