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Database information for World Shakespeare Bibliography Online

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• Coverage: 1962 to present
• Type(s) of Content: Abstract; Index
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• Short Description:
  Annotated entries for all important books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare, from 1974 to the present.
• Annotation:
  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).