Hamlet; an authoritative text, intellectual backgrounds, extracts from the sources, essays in criticism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Corporate Author: Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Hoy, Cyrus, 1926-2010 (ed, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton c1963
New York : Norton, [1963]
New York, [1963]
Edition:[1st ed.]
Series:Norton critical edition ; N306
Norton critical edition
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Table of Contents:
  • The text of Hamlet
  • Textual commentary
  • [Part I.] Intellectual backgrounds
  • Melancholy
  • The French academy / Peter de la Primaudaye
  • Treatise of melancholy / Timothy Bright
  • Demonology
  • Of ghosts and spirits walking by night / Lewes Lavater
  • A discourse of the subtle practices of devils by witches and sorcerers / G. Gifford
  • The nature of man
  • The French academy / Peter de la Primaudaye
  • An apology of Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne
  • Death
  • Comfort / Hieronymous Cardanus
  • An apology of Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne
  • Of physiognomy / Michel de Montaigne
  • [Part II.] Extracts from the sources
  • Amleth / Saxo Grammaticus
  • The hystorie of Hamblet, Prince of Denmarke / Belleforest
  • [Part III.] Essays in criticism
  • An essay on the genius and writings of Shakespeare / John Dennis
  • Some remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / Anonymous
  • [The praise of variety] / Samuel Johnson
  • The character of Hamlet / William Richardson
  • Criticism on the character and tragedy of Hamlet / Henry Mackenzie
  • [A soul unfit] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Criticism on Shakespeare's tragedies : Hamlet / Augustus William Schlegel
  • Notes on the tragedies : Hamlet / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Characters of Shakespeare's plays : Hamlet / William Hazlitt
  • [What actually happens in the play] / A. C. Bradley
  • Hamlet and his problems / T. S. Eliot
  • Hamlet's fault / Elmer Edgar Stoll
  • The embassy of death : an essay on Hamlet / G. Wilson Knight
  • Hamlet and Ophelia / John Dover Wilson
  • The five acts of the editors / Harley Granville-Barker
  • Hamlet and the nature of reality / Theodore Spencer
  • Hamlet : the prince or the poem? / C. S. Lewis
  • Tragedy and the mind of the infant / Ernest Jones
  • An explication of the player's speech / Harry Levin
  • Hamlet / G. B. Harrison
  • Providence in Hamlet / H. D. F. Kitto
  • The nature of will / Rebecca West