Shakespeare's Hamlet


The following resources will help you research on criticisms of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Images of Hamlet

 Print Sources

Literary Companion to British Literature -
Readings On Hamlet (822.3 REA)
Contains in-depth biography of Shakespeare, a chronology of his life and career as well as concurrent historical events, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Major Literary Characters - Hamlet (822.3 HAM)
Provides an introduction on the analysis of character, and the following essays: Hamlet -- The Embassy of Death: An Essay on Hamlet -- Hamlet's Grief -- The Dream of a Hero: Hamlet -- Mimesis in Hamlet -- Hamlet's Dull Revenge -- Hamlet - The Mona Lisa of Literature.
 
Modern Critical Interpretations on William Shakespeare's Hamlet (822.3 WIL)
Contains the following critical essays: Hamlet: His own Falstaff -- An Explication of the Player's Speech -- Acts III and IV: Problems of Text and Staging -- Tragic Alphabet -- Superposed Plays -- O'erdoing Termagant -- Reforming the Role -- Pre-Pepysian Theatre: A Challenged Spectacle, and a chronology.
 

 Online Databases

  Student Research Center Contains thousands of online  primary documents, biographies, topical essays, 
background information, and critical analyses of popular literature.  Select Literature Search tab, then type in title of work.  Click link to left to access database.
     

  The Twayne Authors Series
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.


 Websites

Characters in Hamlet - A Critical Essay: http://www.freewebs.com/debcox/hazlittonhamlet.htm

Critical Approaches to Hamlet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_approaches_to_Hamlet

Criticism of individual plays (Shakespeare): http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/playcriticism.htm#Hamlet

Hamlet - A Successful Suicide: http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/

Hamlet - Academic Criticism: http://pages.unibas.ch/shine/linkstraghamletwf4.html#recent

Hamlet and His Problems, by T. S. Eliot: http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html

Internet Public Library - Online Literary Criticism Collection - Hamlet: http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=ham-102

Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nec/BROWN21.HTM

Shakespeare and His Critics: http://shakespearean.org.uk/

Shakespeare's Characters - Chiefly Those Subordinate: http://www.freewebs.com/debcox/clarkeonhamlet.htm

Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Hamlet, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare [published in 1736] : http://www.freewebs.com/debcox/remarksonhamletanon.htm

An Unrecognized Theme in Hamlet: Lost Inheritance and Claudius's Marriage to Gertrude: http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/


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