JSTOR Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s a research tool that allows students, educators and scholars to use the text of Shakespeare’s plays to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them—line by line. Many of the articles referenced in here can than be retrieved full-text through the JSTOR database.
When you find an article you like in any of the Libraries' databases, just click on the "Find@UMD" button to locate the electronic version. You can also use "Find@UMD" to request items not owned by the UMD Libraries through interlibrary loan.
Be aware that the "Find@UMD" links mainly to electronic resources. Print books and some print journals cannot be identified through "Find@UMD". Use the 
link to identify print books, book chapters, and journal articles that are held in the UMD Libraries. The "Find in WorldcatUMD" link will help you locate a record for these items in Worldcat, along with the library location and call number.
Any items you cannot locate in electronic form or in the UMD Libraries, can be requested through the Libraries' Interlibrary Loan Services.
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*Note: Reloading the page through the proxy still won't give you access if it's a resource we don't subscribe to. To verify access, look up the journal in journal finder.
Search Worldcat for books about Shakespeare and his works held in the UMD Libraries.
For books by and about Shakespeare combine his name with the title of a specific work.
Examples:
william shakespeare venus and adonis
william shakespeare midsummer night’s dream
william shakespeare romeo and juliet
For books about specific works, use the su: prefix before your search terms to increase relevancy:
Examples:
su: william shakespeare comedy of errors
su: william shakespeare midsummer night's dream
su: william shakespeare much ado about nothing
su: william shakespeare henry v
su: william shakespeare richard III
su: william shakespeare titus andronicus
su: william shakespeare venus and adonis
To locate books of criticism about groupings of plays, or poetry try the following searches:
su: william shakespeare sonnets
su: william shakespeare tragedies
su: william shakespeare comedies
su: william shakespeare histories
Other common areas of study include:
su: william shakespeare authorship
su: william shakespeare characters women
su: william shakespeare comic
su: william shakespeare contemporaries
su: william shakespeare economics
su: william shakespeare film adaptations
su: william shakespeare humor
su: william shakespeare influence
su: william shakespeare language
su: william shakespeare literary style
su: william shakespeare love
su: william shakespeare political and social views
su: william shakespeare race
su: william shakespeare religion
su: william shakespeare stage history
su: william shakespeare sources
su: william shakespeare supernatural
su: william shakespeare technique
su: william shakespeare war*
To locate full-length biographies of Shakespeare try the following search:
su: william shakespeare biography
