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• Shakespeare Center housing in one convenient location a treasure trove of content on all things Shakespeare, including in-depth coverage of each of his plays; analysis of his sonnets and longer poems; the full, searchable text of all of his plays; performance videos; scholarly criticism; extensive background essays; “How to Write about” entries; discussion questions; and more

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• Literary Classics eBook shelf containing the full texts of 800+ classic works selected from Bloom’s Literary Canon

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• Full-text poems: 2,600+ searchable, full-text poems, with corresponding analytical entries, allowing researchers to enhance their understanding of a poem’s power by reading the poem alongside criticism of it

• Works: overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism of thousands of works

• Authors: a wealth of content on the finest contemporary and classic writers from around the world

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• Harold Bloom’s Canon of Literature

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