"Look Inside" is a feature at Amazon.com that allows you to preview the text of a book. Why should you care? Because your summer assignment requires you to quote and cite the paragraph(s) where the allusions occur, along with an analysis of each allusion.
If a Google search reveals allusions to Hercules in Shakespeare's Hamlet, hop on over to Amazon.com and enter Hamlet into the search field. If one of the William Shakespeare editions comes up with "Look Inside" on the picture of the cover (like the image, above), select it. When you mouse over the cover, a "search inside this book" field will appear. Plug in "Hercules" and see what comes up. (In the case of a play like Hamlet, cite the Act, Scene, and Line number; for a regular fiction or non-fiction book the page number and paragraph will work.)
If the book you're looking for doesn't come up with a "Look Inside" option, head on over to the library or a bookstore (Borders, Barnes & Noble, Half Price Books, Books-a-Million) and gently look through the books.
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