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From the Book
Introduction / Harold Bloom
Critical extracts / Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, James Russell Lowell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sigmund Freud, George Santayana, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ernest Jones, and Northrop Frye
Hamlet / A.C. Bradley
The embassy of death : an essay on Hamlet / G. Wilson Knight
Hamlet / Harold C. Goddard
Hamlet's grief / Arthur Kirsch
The dream of a hero : Hamlet / Joseph H. Summers
Mimesis in Hamlet / Robert Weimann
Hamlet's dull revenge / René Girard
Hamlet : the Mona Lisa of literature / Jacqueline Rose.
From the Book
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.
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.
"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.
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9780791009741
079100919
9780791009192
9780791095928
079100919
9780791009192
9780791095928
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