Hamlet

Hamlet Criticism

• Hamlet (Vol. 59)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Art of Cruelty: Hamlet and Vindice
    • ‘Nor th' exterior nor the inward man’: The Problematics of Personal Identity in Hamlet
    • Manhood and the Duel: Enacting Masculinity in Hamlet
  • Criticism: Gender Issues
    • Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism
    • Hamlet and Gender
  • Criticism: Language And Imagery
    • Superposed Plays: Hamlet
    • 'Never Doubt I Love': Misreading Hamlet
    • Hamlet's Account of the Pirates
    • Mouse and Mousetrap in Hamlet
  • ‘Ower Swete Sokor’: The Role of Ophelia in Hamlet
  • Criticism: Thematic Roles
    • Life, Crown, and Queen: Gertrude and the Theme of Sovereignty
    • Hamlet, Revenge!
  • Further Reading
• Hamlet (Vol. 71)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Hamlet and the Scanning of Revenge
    • A Thing of Nothing: The Catastrophic Body in Hamlet.
    • Hamlet and the Trauma Doctors: An Essay at Interpretation
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Toward an Objective Correlative: The Problem of Desire in Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet
    • Zeffirelli's Hamlet: The Golden Girl and a Fistful of Dust
    • A Richness of Hamlets
    • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Peter Brook's Adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Shakespeare's Theatrical Symbolism and Its Function in Hamlet
    • The Conflict in Hamlet
    • ‘What Is It You Would See?’: Hamlet and the Conscience of the Theatre
    • Androgynous ‘Union’ and the Women in Hamlet.
    • The Problematic Relation between Reason and Emotion in Hamlet
  • Further Reading
• Hamlet (Vol. 82)
  • Introduction
  • Hamlet and Counter-Humanism
  • Polonius, Our Pundit
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • A Simpler Melancholy
    • Hamlet
    • A Pacifist Prince in Brits' Latest Hamlet.
    • Hamlet
    • Aye, in a Harlem Courtyard, the Witching Time of Night
  • Criticism: Themes
    • ‘It Is No Novelty for a Prince to Be a Prince’: An Enantiomorphous Hamlet
    • ‘A Springe to Catch Woodcocks’: Proverbs, Characterization, and Political Ideology in Hamlet.
    • Hamlet and Friendship
    • ‘It begins with Pyrrhus’ (2.2.451): The Political Philosophy of Hamlet
    • ‘Vows to the Blackest Devil’: Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England
    • Doing Nothing
    • Hamlet's Neglect of Revenge
  • Further Reading
• The Last Mystery
• Hamlet and the Scottish Succession
• Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger's Tragedy, and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607
• The First Quarto of Hamlet: Reforming Widow Gertred
  • Introduction
  • I. Widows and Remarriage
  • II. The Widow Gertred
  • III. "Else-Where"
• Hamlet and A Matter Tender and Dangerous
• Hamlet (Vol. 35)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Hamlet—The Plot's the Thing
    • Hamlet's Grief
    • Hamlet, 'A Man to Double Business Bound'
  • Madness
    • Hamlet's Therapy
    • On Ophelia's Madness
    • Hamlet's Precarious Emotional Balance
    • Madness
    • Dangerous conjectures: Madness in Shakespearean Tragedy
    • Hamlet: A Document in Madness
  • Revenge
    • Spirit of Health or Goblin Damned?
    • Revenge, Honor, and Conscience in Hamlet
    • Hamlet: Revenge and the Critical Mirror
    • Problematic Revenge in Hamlet and King Lear
  • Characterization
    • Dramatis Personae: Sounding Through Their Masks
    • Hamlet's Mother
    • Hamlet and the Modern Dilemma
    • Hamlet: The Name of Action
    • A Heart Cleft in Twain: The Dilemma of Shakespeare's Gertrude
    • Freud's Hamlet
  • Imagery
    • The Owl and the Baker's Daughter: A Note on Hamlet IV
    • The Metaphorical Fallacy
  • Further Reading
• Hamlet (Vol. 37)
  • Introduction
  • Hamlet's Subjectivity
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Nobler in the Mind: The Dialect in Hamlet
• Hamlet's Ear
• Grinning Death's-Head: Hamlet and the Vision of the Grotesque
• Hamlet (Vol. 44)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • On the Value of Hamlet
    • The Play and the Critics
  • Psychoanalytic Interpretations
    • 'Who's There?': Hamlet
    • Sight Lines on Hamlet and Shakespeare Tragedy
    • Man and Wife Is One Flesh: Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body
    • Tragic Alternatives: Eros and Superego Revenge in Hamlet
  • Gender Issues
    • Maternal Images and Male Bonds in Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear
    • Jewels, Statues, and Corpses: Containment of Female Erotic Power in Shakespeare's Plays
    • Gazing at Hamlet, or the Danish Cabaret
  • Hamlet And His Dilemma
    • Chapter II: Hamlet
    • Hamlet and Death: A Recasting of the Play Within the Player
    • 'To be, or not to be': Hamlet's Dilemma
  • Secondary Characters
    • The Character of Hamlet's Mother
    • The Claudian Globe
    • Representations of Ophelia
  • Further Reading
• Framing Ophelia: Representation and the Pictorial Tradition
• The 'Heart of My Mystery': Hamlet and Secrets