ABSTRACT

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive critical analysis available of one of Shakespeare's best-known and most engaging plays.

chapter |68 pages

Introduction

part |43 pages

Tudor-Stuart Hamlet

chapter |14 pages

Shakespeare at Work

The Invention of the Ghost

chapter |11 pages

The Dyer's Infected Hand

The Sonnets and the Text of Hamlet

part |46 pages

Subsequent Hamlets

chapter |20 pages

“The Cause of This Defect”

Hamlet's Editors

chapter |24 pages

“Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?”

The Prince in the Graveyard, 1800–1920