Hamlet

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 • Notes (1878)
• Letter to William Winter (1882)
Henry Irving • Introduction to Hamlet (1890)
Sarah Bernhardt • Why I Have Played Male Parts (1924)
Ellen Terry • [On Ophelia] (1908)
Richard Burton • Introduction to Hamlet (1954)
Michael Pennington • Hamlet: A User’s Guide (1996)
Ralph Alan Cohen • “Nothing Good or Bad”: The 2007 American Shakespeare Center Production of Hamlet Q1
Abigail Rokison • Interview with David Tennant (2009)

Contexts
The Bible
Genesis 4:1–12
Judges 11:30–40
Romans 12:17–21
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus • The Libation-Bearers (458 B.C.E.)
Sophocles • Electra (ca. 400 B.C.E.)
Euripides • Electra (ca. 418 B.C.E.)
• Orestes (408 B.C.E.)
Seneca • Agamemnon (first century)
• Thyestes (first century)
Saxo Grammaticus • Historia Danica (1180–1208)
Dante Alighieri • Inferno (ca. 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 Shakespear (1709)
Voltaire • Preface to Sémiramis (1748)
• Du Théâtre Anglais (1761)
Samuel Johnson • Notes on Hamlet (1765)
George Steevens • Letter to David 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 James H. Hackett (1839)
Edgar Allan Poe • Review of William Hazlitt (1845)
Abraham Lincoln • Letter to James H. Hackett (1863)
Leo Tolstoy • Shakespeare and the Drama (1908)
Gilbert Murray • Hamlet and Orestes (1914)
Ernest Jones • A Psycho-analytic Study of Hamlet (1922)
Stephen Greenblatt • Hamlet in Purgatory (2001)
Tony Howard • Women as Hamlet (2007)

Afterlives
Anonymous • Der bestrafte Brudermord (seventeenth 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)
George 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 Müller • Hamletmachine (1977)
Margaret Atwood • Gertrude Talks Back (1992)
Jawad al-Assadi • Forget Hamlet (1994)
Jasper Fforde • Something Rotten (2004)

Resources
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