Reference Reviews

Reference for Students

Elizabethan World Reference Library. Edited by Elizabeth Shostak. Detroit, Mich.: U*X*L Thomson*Gale, 2007. 4 vols. $172.00. ISBN 10: 1-4144-0188-4; 13: 978-1-4144-0188-1.

While world history teachers will enjoy this new addition to your references, it will be useful to literature teachers as they assign Shakespeare's plays and sonnets to their students. It sets the stage. Each volume begins with the same 3-page Readers Guide, 4-page timeline and a 9-page glossary, and all have black and white illustrations, some margin notes and grey boxes with additional information. Articles have brief bibliographies with books and Web sites.

• Elizabethan World Almanac. By Sonia G. Benson. 1 vol. 204 p. $63.00.
• Elizabethan World Biographies. By Elizabeth Shostak. 1 vol. 242 p. $63.00.
• Elizabethan World Primary Sources. By Elizabeth Shostak. 1 vol. 200 p. 200 p. $63.00.
• Elizabethan World Reference Library Cumulative Index. 1 vol. 34 p. $5.00