From the Book - First edition.
Machine generated contents note: The Text of Hamlet --
Appendix 1 Passages from Quarto 1 (1603) --
Appendix 2 Passages from the Folio (1623) --
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 --
The Libation-Bearers (458 BCE) / Aeschylus --
Electra (c. 400 BCE) / Sophocles --
Electra (c. 418 BCE) / Euripides --
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 --
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 --
Der Bestrafte Brudermord (seventeenth century) --
[Partridge and the Ghost] (1749) / Henry Fielding --
[The Ending of Hamlet] (1772) Hamlet Travesties / David Garrick --
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.