Each week hundreds of people call or visit the San Marcos Public Library to find information. "Answers•To•Go" highlights recently received questions. Please visit the library at 625 East Hopkins, call 393-8200 for information over the phone, or e-mail us through our web-page at www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/library.htm.
Q. We’re doing a group report on “Romeo and Juliet.” Would you help us find criticism on that play? Our teacher wants us to use books, journals, and online sources.
A. We love Shakespeare season when it rolls around each year! And we are ready with exactly what high school students need. Books, journals and online resources…we have them all on your subject.
We have three books devoted to critical analysis of “Romeo and Juliet.” In one, Harold Bloom discusses the play’s characters, “Romeo, exalted by the authentic love between the even more vital Juliet and himself, is one of the first instances of the Shakespearean representation of crucial change in a character through self-reflection.
“Juliet is the play’s triumph, since she is the first of Shakespeare’s extraordinary procession of vibrant, life-enhancing women. His women have never been matched before or since in all of Western literature.”
I’d also encourage students to plan on settling in and doing some research at the library. Our 10 volume set, “Shakespearean Criticism,” offers long quotations from key works by major scholars. Our reference shelves are loaded with books on Shakespeare: “Shakespeare for Students,” “Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us,” “Shakespeare’s Characters,” and others.
For an online source, I’d recommend “Gale’s Literature Resource Center.” There are more than 50 entries on “Romeo and Juliet.”
This web-based service is available only to subscribers and their members. We’d be happy to help you log in on the library’s computers. If you prefer, we can give you the web address and password, and you can do this phase of your research at home.”
Q. Can you find me an 800 number for In Charge Debt Service? I saw a television commercial on it but couldn’t get to a pencil in time.
A. I found a web page for InCharge Debt Solutions. It’s a nonprofit organization based in Orlando, Florida. They do have a toll-free number, (800) 565-8953. Their web address is www.incharge.org.
This is what the website says about their services: “InCharge Debt Solutions is a nonprofit organization providing professional credit counseling, education, and resources to help those burdened with too much debt regain financial health without a loan or bankruptcy.”
If you’d like to come in, we can help you research this organization on the Better Business Bureau’s website: http://search.bbb.org.
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