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Acknowledgments | |
List of Illustrations | |
Introduction: Imagining Hamlet | |
The Text of Hamlet | |
Textual Notes | |
Passages from Quarto 1 (1603) | |
Passages from the Folio (1623) | |
The Actors' Gallery | |
Edwin Booth, 1878, 1882 | |
Henry Irving, 1890 | |
Sarah Bernhardt, 1924 | |
Ellen Terry, 1908, 1932 | |
John Gielgud, 1937, 1963 | |
Richard Burton, 1954 | |
Laurence Olivier, 1982, 1986 | |
Kenneth Branagh, 1996 | |
Michael Pennington, 1996 | |
Jude Law, 2009 | |
Contexts | |
The Bible (c. 1250 BCE-57 CE) | |
Genesis | |
Judges | |
Romans | |
Greek Tragedy (5th century BCE) | |
Aeschylus • The Libation-Bearers | |
Sophocles • Electra | |
Euripides • Electra | |
Orestes | |
Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) | |
Agamemnon | |
Thyestes | |
Historica Danica (1180-1208) | |
Inferno (c. 1315) | |
The Supplication of Souls (1529) | |
The Spanish Tragedy (1592) | |
Criticism | |
Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679) | |
Some Account of the Life, &c of Mr. William Shakespeare, (1709) | |
Voltaire • Preface to Sémiramis (1748); Du Théâtre Anglais (1761) | |
Notes on Hamlet (1765) | |
Letter to Garrick (1771); On Hamlet's Character (1785) | |
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) | |
Lecture on Hamlet (1812) | |
Letter to Hackett (1839) | |
Review of Hazlitt (1845) | |
Letter to Hackett (1863) | |
Shakespeare and the Drama (1908) | |
Hamlet and Orestes (1914) | |
A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet (1922) | |
The Question of Hamlet (1959) | |
Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism (1985) | |
Hamlet in Purgatory (2001) | |
An Annotated and Chronological Screenography: Major Hamlet Adaptations and Selected Derivatives (2002) | |
Women as Hamlet (2007) | |
Empires of World History (2007) | |
Afterlives | |
Der Bestrafte Brudermord (early 17th century) | |
[Partridge and the Ghost] (1749) | |
[The Ending of Hamlet] (1772) | |
Hamlet Travesties | |
Hamlet Travestie (1817) | |
Hamlet Travestie (1849) | |
An Old Play in a New Garb (1853) | |
[Mr. Wopsle's Hamlet] 1861 | |
[Huck Finn on Hamlet] (1885) | |
Hamlet (1946) | |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) | |
Hamletmachine (1979) | |
Forget Hamlet (1994) | |
Gertrude and Claudius (2000) | |
Something Rotten (2004) | |
Resources | |
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