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HAMLET
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Hamlet, the Play's the Thing--the play online:
- MIT Hamlet, by Act and Scene
- MIT Hamlet, entire play (good for "find" searches throughout the play)
- University of Victoria online sites--First Quarto, Second Quarto, First Folio
- University of Virginia etext, by Act and Scene
Literary Criticism: Critical Theory
Hamlet Plot Summaries
- Dr. Michael Delahoyde's University of Washington Shakespeare (scroll to Hamlet for summary and commentary)
- Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare--a classic summary
Reason and Unreason in Hamlet (some Web sources - for scholarly journals, link to JSTOR from the MiraCosta College Library)
- James Bierman's Elsinor Dane Frame (click on three areas for "Hamlet on the Couch" - including "melancholy")
- Derek Russell Davis. Scenes of Madness: A Psychiatrist at the Theater (Google Scholar search)
- Anthony DiMatteo's "Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: 'Reason of State' in Hamlet"
- T. S. Eliot's "Hamlet and his Problems"
- Adam Phillips. Going Sane: Maps of Happiness (from Chapter One)
- Royal Shakespeare Society, page on Hamlet's Madness
- Thomas Szasz's A Lexicon of Lunacy (Google Scholar search)
Hamlet General Information Websites
Xtra - Other Hamlet Essays
- British Library Touchstone Hamlet
- Encyclopedia Brittanica's Guide to Shakespeare (see specific parts on Hamlet)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Hamlet Haven: An Online Annotated Bibliography: Harmonie Loberg's 2002 MA Thesis for the University of Southern Florida contains links for scholarly articles written c. 2000-2001 about Hamlet, including articles from various critical approaches--e.g., feminism, psychoanalysis, etc.
- Hamlet on the Ramparts--the MIT Hamlet Website: "A public website designed and maintained by the MIT
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database page on Hamlet (1817)
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Steve Roth's Hamlet, the Undiscovered Country
- Shakespeare in Europe | Hamlet Index Page
- Terry Gray page on Hamlet
- Coleridge: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Essay on Hamlet: "Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets"
- Feldman: Gail Feldman's "Adapting Shakespeare to Film" in Inside Film Magazine Online
- Hazlitt: William Hazlitt Essay on Hamlet
- Li. "Hamlet in China"
- "Shakespeare Support for the New Astronomy" by Peter D. Usher. Usher is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. "As early as 1601, Shakespeare anticipated the new universal order and humankind's position in it," Usher states. "The play therefore manifests an astronomical cosmology that is no less magnificent than its literary and philosophical counterparts." (historical)
Hamlet Film Versions
Hamlet Videos: Evolution of Ophelia (video clips from two adaptations, Zeffirelli's and Almereyda's) | Hamlet "To be or not to be" in Spanish | "Imagine Being Hamlet": Ralph Fiennes plays and talks about acting Hamlet |
- Sir Lawrence Olivier's 1948 version (Lawrence as Hamlet and Jean Simmons as Ophelia)
- Bill Colleran and John Gielgud's 1964 version (Richard Burton as Hamlet). Video: Richard Burton's Introduction
- Rodney Bennett's 1980 BBC version: set in Elizabethan period and costuming (Derek Jacobi as Hamlet and Lalla Ward as Ophelia, Patrick Stewart as Claudius and Claire Bloom as Gertrude). Video Clips: 3.1 (includes "to be or not to be")
- Franco Zefferelli's 1990 version: set in medieval period, a castle (Mel Gibson as Hamlet and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia, Alan Bates as Claudius and Glenn Close as Gertrude). Video Clips: Trailer |
- Kenneth Branagh's 1996 version: set in 19th century, a royal palace (Branagh as Hamlet and Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Derek Jacobi as Claudius and Julie Christie as Gertrude, with Billy Crystal as the First Gravedigger, and several other great actors in cameo parts): The complete play. The Filming of Hamlet (search "Hamlet") || James Berardinelli's review. Video Clips: Trailer1 - Trailer2, with theme from Saw | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.1 (to be or not to be)
- Michael Almereyda's 2000 version: set in year 2000, in New York City (Ethan Hawke as Hamlet and Julia Stiles as Ophelia, Kyle MacLachlan as Claudius and Diane Venora as Gertrude, Bill Murray as Polonius and Liev Schreiber as Laertes) | Salon Review of the Almereyda version
Fun with Hamlet (alert! some of these are quite silly - be prepared to groan)
- 4-Minute Hamlet (video with clips of Zefferelli adaptation)
- Cat Theater does Hamlet, 2.2 (video)
- Fast Shakespeare - to be or not to be (video)
- Green Eggs and Hamlet
- Hamlet Is Back (trailer mashup with Arnold Schwarzenneger as Hamlet - if the video does not come up right away, just put "hamlet is back" in the search window)
- Hamlet - The Musical (Gilligan's Island video) The Klingon Hamlet
- Hamlet, Prince of Tube (video - "to tube or not to tube")
- Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) and Dr. House (John Cleese) talk about cutting Hamlet (video satire, esp. the "to be or not to be" speech)
- Reduced Shakespeare Company Hamlet (video): Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV
- "Shakespeare in the Bush" - Hamlet interpreted from the perspective of the Tiv tribe of Western Africa (1971 article by anthropologist Laura Bohannon)
- Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Clip (questions tennis)
- Scooby Doo Hamlet
- Simpson's Hamlet (You-Tube video - if the video does not come up right away, just put "simpson's hamlet" in the search window))
- The Shakespeare Insult Server
- Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex Hamlet ("TV or not TV - that is the question. . . )
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