Cambridge Collections Online provides fully searchable online editions of all the Cambridge Companions series in Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
You can search by specific title and also by keyword within the text. Individual chapters can be viewed as pdf files, which replicate the print version of the book, or in html for onscreen viewing.
Examples from the collection include:
The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare |
The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists |
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio Emma Smith 2016 |
The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film Russell Jackson 2007 |
Oxford Academic offers access to thousands of academic works from Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities. These eBooks can all be found by searching SOLO, but you can use the website directly to search across the full text of all the eBooks at once.
Wiley Online Library provides full text access to key reference works in the Blackwell's Reference series and Wiley Textbooks. The texts are fully searchable and chapters can be read online in html format. There are 10 titles specifically related to Shakespeare, as well as hundreds more chapters in other titles.
Examples from the collection available via SOLO:
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