Hamlet: text of the play, the actors' gallery, contexts, criticism, afterlives, resources

Machine generated contents note: The text of Hamlet

Textual notes

Appendix 1 Passages from Quarto 1 (1603)

Appendix 2 Passages from the Folio (1623)

The actors' gallery

Notes (1878) / Edwin Booth

Letter to William Winter (1882)

Introduction to Hamlet (1890) / Henry Irving

Why I have played male parts (1924) / Sarah Bernhardt

[On Ophelia] (1908) / Ellen Terry

The pathetic women (1932)

John Gielgud's Hamlet (1937) / John Gielgud

A note on Hamlet (1963)

[On Hamlet's character] (1982) / Laurence Olivier

[On the 1948 film] (1986)

Introduction to Hamlet (1954) / Richard Burton

Introduction to Hamlet (1996) / Kenneth Branagh

Hamlet: A user's guide (1996) / Michael Pennington

National Public Radio Interview (2009) / Jude Law

Contexts

The Bible

Greek tragedy

The Libation-Bearers (458 BCE) / Aeschylus

Electra (c. 400 BCE) / Sophocles

Electra (c. 418 BCE) / Euripides

Orestes (408 BCE)

Agamemnon (first century) / Seneca.

Thyestes (first century)

Historica Danica (1180-1208) / Saxo Grammaticus

Inferno (c. 1315) / Dante Alighieri

The supplication of souls (1529) / Thomas More

The Spanish tragedy (1592) / Thomas Kyd

Criticism

Preface to Troilus and Cressida (1679) / John Dryden

Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709) / Nicholas Rowe

Preface to Semiramis (1748) / Voltaire

Du theatre Anglais (1761)

Notes on Hamlet (1765) / Samuel Johnson

Letter to David Garrick (1771) / George Steevens

[On Hamlet's character] (1785)

Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship (1795) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lecture on Hamlet (1812) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letter to James H. Hackett (1839) / John Quincy Adams

Review of William Hazlitt (1845) / Edgar Allan Poe

Letter to James H. Hackett (1863) / Abraham Lincoln

Shakespeare and the Drama (1908) / Leo Tolstoy

Hamlet and Orestes (1914) / Gilbert Murray

A psycho-analytic study of Hamlet (1992) / Ernest Jones.

[Irony in Hamlet] (1959) / Harry Levin

Representing Ophelia: Women, madness, and the responsibilities of feminist criticism (1985) / Elaine Showalter

Hamlet in purgatory (2001) / Stephen Greenblatt

An annotated and chronological screenography (2002) / Kenneth S. Rothwell

Women as Hamlet (2007) / Tony Howard

Empires of world history (2007) / Margreta de Grazia

Afterlives

Der Bestrafte Brudermord (seventeenth century)

[Partridge and the ghost] (1749) / Henry Fielding

[The ending of Hamlet] (1772) Hamlet travesties / David Garrick

Hamlet travesties

Hamlet travestie (1849) / John Poole

Hamlet travestie (1849) / Francis Talfourd

An old play in a new garb (1853) / George Edward Rice

[Mr. Wopsle's Hamlet] (1861) / Charles Dickens

[Huck Finn on Hamlet] (1885) / Mark Twain

Hamlet (1946) / Boris Pasternak

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) / Tom Stoppard

Hamletmachine (1977) / Heiner Muller

Forget Hamlet (1994) / Jawad Al-Assadi

Gertrude and Claudius (2000) / John Updike

Something Rotten (2004) / Jasper Fforde.