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# Obscure Shakespearean gems
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/obscure-shakespearean-gems/
- Published: 2006-06-14T00:17:40.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:54:44.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, Collections, Systems

For Prospero, his library was dukedom enough. I verified this through a search of *The Tempest* on Google Book Search just now. Many readers will have seen that Google Book Search has a Shakespeare page:

> This summer we’re working to make Shakespeare even more accessible with our website at [www.google.com/shakespeare](https://books.google.com/googlebooks/shakespeare/?utm%5Fsource=gbsblog&utm%5Fcampaign=shakespeare&utm%5Fmedium=et), where you can find and search through all of Shakespeare’s plays, from familiar favorites like [Hamlet](https://books.google.com/books?vid=0j%5F1uJvGI9oTwBEJsc-P21&id=sfp4WY8id1cC&pg=PR3&ref=lorcandempsey.net) to more obscure gems like [Troilus and Cressida](https://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02859004&id=TCCEqI4tW1oC&pg=PA41&printsec=4&ref=lorcandempsey.net). The site launches in conjunction with our sponsorship of [Shakespeare in the Park](https://www.publictheater.org/view.php?mode=eventdisplay&eventid=210&ref=lorcandempsey.net), New York’s wonderful outdoor festival, which this summer will feature a production of Macbeth. \[[Inside Google Book Search: No holds Bard](https://booksearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/no-holds-bard.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

 The entry says that they will be working on the site over the summer, and I am sure that additional functionality will be added. It is a strangely flat debut given the range of higher level services they are so well-placed to offer. This seems especially so given recent discussions about the research potential of having computational access to masses of textual materials (see the D-Lib [article](https://dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) by Gregory Crane, for example).