Online help with Shakespeare
Discovery Collection, TumbleReadables and Audio Book Cloud, all available through the library's A-Z list of all databases, provide online help for students studying Shakespeare.
Discovery Collection provides critical essays, plot summaries and narrative biographies on the popular Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar and Macbeth.
It is easy to use:
- Click on Discovering Collection to open it
- Type the name of the play in the Basic Search box
OR
- Select the play from the list of popular topics on the left
Listening to Shakespeare without Downloading
To listen to a recording of a Shakespeare play, go to TumbleReadables.
To find a play:
- Click Classics and then Shakespeare
Full cast recordings are available for Hamlet and King Lear.
Audio Book Cloud
Audio Book Cloud is another place to check for online listening of Shakespeare classics such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello, the Merchant of Venice, King Richard III and The Sonnets.
To find a Shakespeare title:
- Click on Classics and then Plays & Drama or Poetry
Other Database News
Learning Express Library Promotion
On the Find Your Way to Newcomers to Canada page there is now a direct link to Learning Express Library for help with preparing for the Canadian citizenship test. Under More ESL Tools is a list of other online resources to help customers with English language learning.
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