Top Ten Tuesday: 10 top Shakespeare resources @DSL

William Shakespeare's birthday was on April 23. Here are our top 10 Shakespearean resources:

10. FILM
25 Shakespeare films on DVD (list) and 43 Shakespeare films on VHS (list).
Subtle library plug: We have VCRs and TVs you can watch the films on downstairs in the A/V room.

9. AUDIO BOOKS
5 related titles (list).

8. CHILDREN'S BOOKS
11 titles (list).

7. BIOGRAPHY
42 titles (list).

6. PRINT WORKS BY SHAKESPEARE
Plays
Sonnets

5. ONLINE WORKS BY SHAKESPEARE
9 titles, including King Lear and Othello in Spanish. Plus, 100+ titles related to Shakespeare.

4. PRINT LITERARY CRITICISM
Try this search to pull up 200+ titles (copy and paste): Shakespeare AND criticism (as a subject).

3. REFERENCE BOOKS
18 titles, including the fantastic 105 volume series, Shakespearean Criticism.

2. ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM (E-books)
60+ titles (list).

1. ONLINE LITERARY CRITICISM (Databases)
Try the following: Literature Criticism Online, Gale Literary Database, Project Muse, JSTOR, MLA, Academic Search Complete. Or try these Shakespearean e-journals.

**Bonus online resources--a) check out Project Gutenberg to download audiobooks & e-books of Shakespeare for free online. b) Generate random Shakespearean insults at this site.
More great links here.

Happy (late) birthday, Shakespeare!

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564--yesterday would have been his 445th birthday. But it's not too late to celebrate.

Some of Shakespeare's most famous quotations about age:

“I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.” The Winter's Tale

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety." Anthony and Cleopatra.

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." The Merchant of Venice

"I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have." Macbeth

Shakespeare @ Dick Smith Library:

Here is a small sampling of some of our resources:

Reference Books

PR2892 .O56 2002 Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z : the essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life and times, and more.

PR2892.B69 1990 Davis, J. Madison. The Shakespeare name dictionary.

PR2892 .D33 2004. Palmer, Alan Warwick.Who's who in Shakespeare's England.

JOURNALS: Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Association bulletin, Shakespeare bulletin, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Shakespeare on film newsletter, Shakespeare quarterly,Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare survey
TO ACCESS JOURNALS: Go to the the library homepage. Under Databases click "Online Periodical By Title" and type in journal title. Click on journal title link, "Info" or "SFX". Log into the NTNET network using your st_ user name and password.

FILM VERSIONS OF THE PLAYS(VHS):

Our selection includes: Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Henry V, Henry VIII, King Lear, Love's Labours Lost,Macbeth,Measure for Measure,Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tragedy of Richard III, The Two Gentleman of Verona, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale.

There are viewing and listening stations available downstairs for various formats, including DVDs, CDs, records, VHS and cassettes.

SHAKESPEARE IN THE NEWS

"Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late." Mackey, Robert. The Lede Blog. The New York Times. March 9, 2009.

"Remains of Shakespeare's First Globe Theatre unearthed." Smith, Graham. Mail Online (The Daily Mail). March 10, 2009.

AREA EVENTS

Scarborough Renaissance Festival (April 4-May 25th, 2009)

For a list of other Texas Renaissance festivals, go to:
http://www.thebards.net/txrenfaires.shtml

LINKS

On the go? Check out the Open Source Shakespeare Mobile Site and read the Bard's works on your cell phone: http://mobile.opensourceshakespeare.org/

The Texas Shakespeare Festival is located in Kilgore, Texas.More information:
http://www.texasshakespeare.com/

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