Critical Essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet

by Kastan, David Scott; Bowen, Zack

• ISBN13: 9780783800011
• ISBN10: 0783800010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Twayne Pub

Summary

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note	vii
Publisher's Note	ix
Introduction: ``Very like a Whale''	1	(8)
David Scott Kastan
ARTICLES
Shakespeare in the Bush	9	(10)
Laura Bohannan
On the Value of Hamlet	19	(24)
Stephen Booth
Hamlet and Our Problems	43	(13)
Michael Goldman
Hamlet and the Power of Words	56	(23)
Inga-Stina Ewbank
Hendiadys and Hamlet	79	(31)
George T. Wright
Hieronimo, Hamlet and Remembrance	110	(16)
John Kerrigan
``Maimed Rites'': Violated Ceremony in Hamlet	126	(13)
David Bevington
Hamlet: letters and spirits	139	(17)
Margaret W. Ferguson
Hamlet---the ``Mona Lisa'' of Literature	156	(15)
Jacqueline Rose
Hamlet and the Security of the South African State	171	(27)
Martin Orkin
``His semblable is his mirror'': Hamlet and the Imitation of Revenge	198	(12)
David Scott Kastan
The Textual Mystery of Hamlet	210	(31)
Paul Werstine
Hamlet: Growing	241	(17)
Barbara Everett
``No offence i' th' world'': Hamlet and Unlawful Marriage	258	(17)
Lisa Jardine
Index	275