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Table of Contents
From the Book
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Hamlet / William Hazlitt
Hamlet / A.C. Bradley
Hamlet / Harold C. Goddard
Superposed plays : Hamlet / Richard A. Lanham
Hamlet / William Empson
Hamlet / Northrop Frye
Readiness, ripeness : Hamlet, Lear / Yves Bonnefoy
Truant dispositions : Hamlet and Machiavelli / Julia Lupton
The melancholy Dane / Bert O. States
Hamlet and the ghost of purgatory : intimations of killing the father / Anthony Low
A king of infinite space / John Lee.
From the Book
"Hamlet and the art of grafting," from Shakespeare's Scepticism / Graham Bradshaw 1987 --
"Introduction," from Hamlet (Major Literary Characters) / Harold Bloom 1990 --
"Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Notes) / Harold Bloom 1995 --
Hamlet in the twenty-first century --
From A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / James Shapiro 2005 --
Bibliography --
Key editions --
Modern Hamlet editions --
Hamlet through the ages : an essential bibliography --
General bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Index.
From Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear / Nicholas Rowe 1709 --
"On tragedy," from Letters Concerning the English Nation / Voltaire 1734 --
From The Prompter / William Popple 1735 --
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark / Thomas Hanmer 1736 --
From "Discourse on Ancient and Modern Tragedy" / Voltaire 1748 --
From Tom Jones / Henry Fielding 1749 --
From "The preface to Shakespeare" and "Notes on the plays," in The Plays of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson 1765 --
From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy / Laurence Sterne 1768 --
From "A letter from M. Voltaire to the French Académie containing an appeal to that society on the merits of Shakespeare, translated from the original" / Voltaire 1776 --
From The Mirror / Henry Mackenzie 1780 --
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1795 --
Hamlet in the nineteenth century --
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm von Schlegel 1809 --
"On the tragedies of Shakespeare" / Charles Lamb 1811--
"Mr. Kean's Hamlet," from Morning Chronicle 1814 --
"Hamlet," from Characters of Shakespear's Plays / William Hazlitt 1817 --
From Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1818 --
From " William Hazlitt" / Edgar Allan Poe 1845 --
"Hamlet and Don Quixote : the two eternal human types" / Ivan Turgenev 1860 --
From William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo 1864 --
"Shakespeare once more" / James Russell Lowell 1868 --
From The Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche 1871 --
"The elder Hamlet" / George Macdonald 1875 --
From "Hamlet," in A Study of Shakespeare / Algernon Charles Swinburne 1880 --
"Hamlet once more" / Matthew Arnold 1884 --
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 1884 --
"Hamlet at the Comedie-Française" / Anatole France 1886 --
"Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas" / Oscar Wilde 1897 --
Hamlet in the twentieth century --
"The true Hamlet" / G.K. Chesterton 1901 --
"Polonius," "Ophelia," and "Hamlet" / Walter de la Mare 1902 --
From Shakespearean Tragedy / A.C. Bradley 1904 --
"Reading Hamlet" / Anna Akhmatova 1909 --
"Hamlet and his problems" / T.S. Eliot 1919 --
From Ulysses / James Joyce 1922 --
"The embassy of death : an essay on Hamlet" / G. Wilson Knight 1930 --
"Hamlet when new," from The Sewanee Review / William Empson 1951 --
From The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 1951 --
"The character of Hamlet's mother," from Shakespeare Quarterly / Carolyn Heilbrun 1957 --
"Hamlet," from Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak 1958 --
"On the value of Hamlet" / Stephen Booth 1969 --
"Hamlet : letters and spirits," from Shakespeare and the Question of Theory / Margaret Ferguson 1985 --
"Introduction," from Hamlet (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom 1986 --
Series introduction --
Volume introduction / Harold Bloom --
Biography of William Shakespeare --
Summary of Hamlet --
Key passages in Hamlet --
List of characters in Hamlet --
Criticism through the ages --
Hamlet in the seventeenth century --
From Eastward Ho / Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston 1605 --
Chapters 2-5 from The Hystorie of Hamblet / François de Belleforest 1608 --
From A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Richard Burbage / Anonymous 1619 --
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys / Samuel Pepys 1661-1668 --
From "The preface to the play," in Troilus and Cressida / John Dryden 1679 --
From A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage / Jeremy Collier 1698 --
From The Antient and Modern Stages Survey'd / James Drake 1699 --
Hamlet in the eighteenth century --
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