A Note on Hamlet's Illegitimacy: Identifying
Steve Sohmer identifies a previously unrecognized source for Hamlet's speech: De Laudibus Legum Angliae, written by Sir John Fortescue (1394? - 1476?), Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Henry VI.
A Romance of Electronic Scholarship, with the True
Donald Foster focuses on the Q1 Hamlet.
A Synoptic Hamlet: A Critical-Synoptic Edition of
Steve Roth reviews the Jesús Tronch-Pérez book.
Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and
Steve Sohmer argues that Shakespeare linked the principal events in Hamlet to particular holy days, and that the play's first audiences could identify these holy days from cues in the text.
Characters of Shakespear's Plays
By William Hazlitt. First Published 1817.
Corruption: An Incurable Disease
A study of the theme of disease and corruption in Hamlet.
Hamlet and Revenge
Essay discussing revenge in two Elizabethan tragedies: Hamlet; Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy.
Hamlet as the Christmas Prince: Certain Speculatio
Steve Roth analyzes a two-month trope in the Hamlet quartos.
Hamlet: A Tragedy of Errors, or the Tragical Fate
Suggests that in Hamlet "Shakespeare portrayed himself as an allegedly dead university graduate."
Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From a lecture given in 1818. Lectures collected by T. Ashe; first Published 1883.
Loose Ends and Inconsistencies in the First Quarto
Y. S. Bains rebuts G. R. Hibbard's general conclusions about the quality of the text of Q1.
Making Mother MatterRepression, Revision, and the
Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks argue that "Branagh's Hamlet reproduces the Oedipal triangle in its most conspicuous, paternalistic form."
O'ertopping Pelion: Hamlet, Laertes, and the
Hardin Aasand suggests that the early editions of Hamlet (Q1, Q2, F1) convey disparities in their treatment of Hamlet's and Laertes's disposition at Ophelia's graveyard.
Performance, Subjectivity and Slander in Hamlet an
Adam Piette suggests that Goffman's interpretative framework and key terms are useful when interpreting performances of Shakespeare's plays.
Renaissance Tragedy and Investigator Heroes
Article focusing on Hamlet and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
Samuel Johnson - Notes on Hamlet
Edited by Walter Raleigh. First Published 1908.
Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of
Roger Starling reviews the John Lee book.
Table Talk on Hamlet
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Very short notes on Hamlet: Polonius and Hamlet with Ophelia. Taken as extracts from Coleridge's "Table Talk."
The Oedipus-Complex as An Explanation of Hamlet&ap
Complete text of Ernest Jones's essay in The American Journal of Psychology.
The Origin of Hamlet: All The Year Round
From the 8th February 1879 edition of Charles Dickens's journal "All The Year Round." Mainly a discussion of The Hystorie of Hamblet, an anonymous English novel based on Belleforest and Saxo Grammaticus, which may have been used as a source for Shakespeare's Hamlet