The comprehensive Shakespeare dictionary.

Produced by the Comprehensive Shakespeare Dictionary Project, a collaboration of scholars and theater specialists dedicated to making the Bard accessible to students, this is much more than a dictionary. Based on Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon (G. Reimer, 1902. 3d ed.), Francis Stokes's A Dictionary of the Characters & Proper Names in the Works of Shakespeare (G.G. Harrap & Co., 1924), and The Works of William Shakespeare (Henley Edition, 1888), the disc provides a database of more than 260,000 hypertext links to character and plot summaries, 20,000 definitions, a name dictionary, 100 favorite Shakespeare quotations, searching access to over 50,000 other quotations, and 33 19th-century engravings of scenes from the plays. The Main Menu provides easy access to Characters; Plots; Quotations; and Lexicon. Bottom Line: Nothing special here, but nothing wrong either. The disc provides quick and easy access to frequently asked ready-reference questions and will be useful in any library with Shakespeare-related reference activity. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.