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English Research Guide: Specialized Databases

This research guide features resources and strategies for finding information and conducting research related to English.

SPECIALIZED DATABASES

Databases listed on this page:

1. Cover specialized subject areas within literature

  •      Children's and young adult literature
  •        Drama and Theatre
  •       Shakespeare
  •       Themed literature

2. Offer results in media format

3.  Provide Indexing to literary works

INDEXES TO LITERATURE

SHAKESPEARE

    Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon

DRAMA AND THEATRE

These media and online print resources specialize in the dramatic arts. 

MEDIA RESOURCES

     

THEMED LITERATURE

This list includes literature resources focused on a particular time period, people group, or literary movement.

          

Poets of the Romantic Period: Lord Byron, William Blake, and Percy Bysshe Shelley

CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

These databases are dedicated to the coverage of books aimed at children and young adults and the authors who write them.

                                        

     Illustration from Little Women and picture of Louisa May Alcott