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William shakespeare biografia wikipedia Also by , his name began to appear on the title pages of his plays, presumably as a selling point. This seven-year period — known as the "lost years" to Shakespeare scholars — was filled by early biographers with inferences drawn from local traditions and by more recent biographers with surmises about the onset of his acting career deduced from textual and bibliographic hints and the surviving records of the various troupes of players, acting at that time. Cressy, David Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth.

World Shakespeare Bibliography

Online Shakespeare database
ProducerJohns Hopkins University Press for Shakespeare Quarterly in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library (United States)
History to present
LanguagesEnglish
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CostSubscription
Coverage
DisciplinesLiterature, Shakespeare
Record depthIndex
Format coverageBooks, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media
Geospatial coverageWorldwide
Update frequencyQuarterly
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Print titleWorld Shakespeare Bibliography
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is a searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between and the present.[1] Containing over , annotated entries,[2] this collected information provides annotated citations for anyone engaged in research on William Shakespeare or Early Modern Britain.[3] It is the single-largest Shakespeare database in the world.[4]

In , the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) awarded the WSB Online the Besterman/McColvin medal for outstanding electronic reference work.[5] In , this ever-expanding digital reference tool, compiled by Dr.

James Harner of Texas A&M University, was named as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine.[6] The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online is currently edited by Dr. Heidi Craig (also of Texas A&M University).

WSB Online is searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, language, publisher, and periodical title.

It is international in scope, covering and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.[7]