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Over 30 years ago a renowned Hamlet scholar expressed his astonishment that some 400 works a year dealing with the play were being received at the Shakespeare Quarterly. The rate of Hamlet studies has increased quite considerably since then. To make any headway in the study of any aspect of Hamlet, the use of bibliographies—annotated, if at all possible—is often necessary. The most up-to-date resource is the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; their publication, the Shakespeare Quarterly, has one issue per year devoted entirely to bibliography. As to their on-line searching, a search of the keyword "Hamlet" in Folger's web-based catalog, HamnetArchived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine returned 2245 entries; the result does not include the number of entries in the library's card-catalog.
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- ↑ Galileu Library. "World Shakespeare Bibliography". Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ↑ University of Texas. "World Shakespeare Bibliography Online". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ↑ Johns Hopkins University. "Institutional Subscription Plans". Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ↑ CILIP. "Reference Awards archive". Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ↑ Nuttall, A. D. "Shakespeare the Thinker". Yale University Press. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ↑ NCSU Libraries. "Databases: World Shakespeare bibliography online". NC State University. Retrieved 29 November 2011.