Text of the Play, the Actors' Gallery, Contexts, Criticism, Afterlives, Resources
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Robert S. Miola is Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair of English at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Shakespeare's Reading, Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence, Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy: The Influence of Seneca, and The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, as well as dozens of articles on sixteenth-century English literature.
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Imagining Hamlet The Text of Hamlet Textual Notes Appendix 1: Passages from Quarto 1 (1603) Appendix 2: 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 Saxo Grammaticus ? Historica Danica (1180-1208) Dante Alighieri ? Inferno (c. 1315) Thomas More ? The Supplication of Souls (1529) Thomas Kyd ? The Spanish Tragedy (1592) Criticism John Dryden ? Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679) Nicholas Rowe ? Some Account of the Life, &c of Mr. William Shakespeare, (1709) Voltaire ? Preface to Semiramis (1748); Du Theatre Anglais (1761) Samuel Johnson ? Notes on Hamlet (1765) George Steevens ? Letter to Garrick (1771); On Hamlet's Character (1785) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ? Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) Samuel Taylor Coleridge ? Lecture on Hamlet (1812) John Quincy Adams ? Letter to Hackett (1839) Edgar Allan Poe ? Review of Hazlitt (1845) Abraham Lincoln ? Letter to Hackett (1863) Leo Tolstoy ? Shakespeare and the Drama (1908) Gilbert Murray ? Hamlet and Orestes (1914) Ernest Jones ? A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet (1922) Harry Levin ? The Question of Hamlet (1959) Elaine Showalter ? Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism (1985) Stephen Greenblatt ? Hamlet in Purgatory (2001) Kenneth S. Rothwell ? An Annotated and Chronological Screenography: Major Hamlet Adaptations and Selected Derivatives (2002) Tony Howard ? Women as Hamlet (2007) Margreta de Grazia ? Empires of World History (2007) Afterlives Der Bestrafte Brudermord (early 17th century) Henry Fielding ? [Partridge and the Ghost] (1749) David Garrick ? [The Ending of Hamlet] (1772) Hamlet Travesties John Poole ? Hamlet Travestie (1817) Francis Talfourd ? Hamlet Travestie (1849) Geroge Edward Rice ? An Old Play in a New Garb (1853) Charles Dickens ? [Mr. Wopsle's Hamlet] 1861 Mark Twain ? [Huck Finn on Hamlet] (1885) Boris Pasternak ? Hamlet (1946) Tom Stoppard ? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) Heiner Muller ? Hamletmachine (1979) Jawad al-Assadi ? Forget Hamlet (1994) John Updike ? Gertrude and Claudius (2000) Jasper Fforde ? Something Rotten (2004) Resources