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RESOURCES SPECIFIC TO HAMLET
1. Hamlet on the Ramparts— The MIT's Shakespeare Electronic Archive.2. Hamletworks.org A highly respected scholarly resource with multiple versions of Hamlet, numerous commentaries, concordances, facsimiles, and more.
3. "Nine Hamlets"— An analysis of the play and nine film versions, at the Bright Lights Film Journal.
4. Depictions and commentary of Hamlet paintings
5. Hamlet – Study guide, themes, quotes, summary, teachers guide
6. "The Hamlet Enigma"
7. "HyperHamlet"— The Q2 text, with copious hyper-linked references and notes. Run by the University of Basel.
8. Modern English Translation of Hamlet— A full modern English version of the play.
9. Monologues and Scenes from Hamlet Searchable list of monologues and scenes from the play with summary and text.
SHAKESPEAREAN LEXICONS AND GRAMMAR
1. Shakespeare’s Grammar: 2100 word glossary of Shakespearean vocabulary. Use search box to access information.2. Shakespeare-Lexicon : a complete dictionary of all the English words, phrases and constructions in the works of the poet by Alexander Schmidt (January 1, 1902); ebook version from Internet Archive
3. A Shakespearian Grammar by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1879), part of the Pereus Digital Library at Tufts. A feast for word-freaks. Abbott labels "errors" usages which we might prefer to call "dialectal" or merely "obsolete." New URL (provided through Bestoflegends.org)
SHAKESPEARE GENERAL RESOURCES
1. ESL Desk: William Shakespeare - Turns the text of books into an online reader.2. Fathom Learning Center: Shakespeare and his World - Articles, features, courses and lectures, book recommendations and links to further resources on Shakespeare.
3. Folger Library Teaching Shakespeare - Lesson plans, workshops and festivals.
4. For Bloggers The British Shakespeare Association http://www.britishshakespeare.ws/
5. GradeSaver : William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - Biography with study guides, essays and e-texts of the majority of his plays..
6. Hamlet Works (contains analysis and commentary plus all known versions of the play http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/
7. Materials for the Construction of Shakespeare's Morals - The selected materials reflect the texts that Shakespeare responds to in Renaissance discourse. From Ben R. Schneider, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English at Lawrence University.
8. Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet: Criticism of Individual Plays http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/playcriticism.htm#Hamlet
9. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - An annotated guide to resources on the Internet.
10. No Sweat Shakespare: Modern English Shakespeare Translations - Modernized adaptations written as teenage novels.
11. REED Presents: Shakespeare - Full texts, life and times, theatre associations, links to other Shakespeare sites. From the University of Victoria.
12. Shakespeare Help! http://www.shakespearehelp.com/hamlet/main.htm
13. Shakespeare High - Messageboard, tutorials, and quizzes for students. Lesson plans for teachers.
14. Shakespeare Illustrated - Nineteenth-century paintings, criticism, theatrical productions, and influences of the plays.
15. Shakespeare Index - An index of articles.
16. Shakespeare Institute Library - From the University of Birmingham.
17. Shakespeare Online - Links to other Shakespeare sites.
18. Shakespeare Stack Project - Macintosh hyperCard editions of the works and annotations downloadable in binhex format.
19. Shakespeare: An Overview - Background on Elizabethan era, Stratford-upon-Avon, theater and performance, and film.
20. Shakespearean Poetry Search - A concordance, allowing users to search for specific words or phrases in the sonnets and select plays.
21. ShakespeareBot - Talk with ShakespeareBot, an artificially intelligent William Shakespeare chat bot.
22. Shakespeare's Food Poesies - An encyclopedia of foods quoted from Shakespeare's plays; interlinked to their own histories.
23. Shakespeare's Life and Times - Plot summaries, life, background on Elizabethan stage, and the social, historical, and artistic context of the time.
24. Shakespeare's Monologues - Categorized lists of the monologues with play, act, scene, and line numbers.
25. Shakespeare's Plays Online TV Show - Plays, sonnets and poetry. Analyses and reenactments from BananaTV.
26. The Internet Shakespeare Editions - Life, the Elizabethan theater, Renaissance society, politics, music, and art.
27. The McGill Shakespeare Resources Page - Directory of Etexts; links to Shakespeare sites, Ejournals, and festivals.
28. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare in Literature: (Requires LAPL library card) http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t117&subject=s13
29. The Shakespeare Resource Center - Synopses of plays, authorship debates, and a Shakespeare store.
30. Touchstone - The British Library's research tool for Shakespeare in the United Kingdom. Information on productions, resources, meetings, groups, and questions.
31. Triangulating Shakespeare - Teaching materials--online syllabi, lecture notes, and critical essays--as well as student work-- papers, pictures, and performances on RealPlayer video clips.
HAMLET ARTICLES FROM GALE LITERATURE CENTER
1. Cousins, A.D. "Shakespeare's Hamlet 1.2.153." The Explicator. (Vol. 62). .1 (Fall 2003): p5. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.2. Croxford, Leslie. "The uses of interpretation in Hamlet." Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 24 (Annual 2004): p93. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
3. Delaney, Bill. "Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Explicator. (Vol. 63). .2 (Winter 2005): p66. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
4. Farley-Hills, David. "HAMLET'S ACCOUNT OF THE PIRATES." The Review of English Studies. (Vol. 50). .199 (Aug. 1999): p320. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
5. Fulton, Lorie Watkins. "He's a bitch: gender and nature in The Hamlet." The Mississippi Quarterly. (Vol. 58). .3-4 (Summer-Fall 2005): p441. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
6. Gates, Sarah. "Assembling the Ophelia fragments: gender, genre, and revenge in Hamlet." Explorations in Renaissance Culture. (Vol. 34). .2 (Winter 2008): p229. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
7. Gooch, Michael. "Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Explicator. (Vol. 60). .4 (Summer 2002): p186. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
8. Knowles, Ronald. "Hamlet and Counter-Humanism." Renaissance Quarterly. (Vol. 52). .4 (Winter 1999): p1046. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
9. Kumamoto, Chikako. "Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Explicator. (Vol. 64). .4 (Summer 2006): p201. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
10. Levy, Eric. "THE PROBLEMATIC RELATION BETWEEN REASON AND EMOTION IN HAMLET." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. (Vol. 53). .2 (Winter 2001): p83. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
11. Lipstein, Freddi. "Hamlet ... the rest is silence." Shakespeare Bulletin. (Vol. 22). .3 (Fall 2004): p77. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
12. Smith, Evans Lansing. "Shakespeare's HAMLET." The Explicator. (Vol. 52). .4 (Summer 1994): p137. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
13. Stegner, Paul D. ""Try what repentance can": Hamlet, confession, and the extraction of interiority." Shakespeare Studies. (Vol. 35). .(Annual 2007): p105. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
14. Sterling, Eric. "Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Explicator. (Vol. 60). .1 (Fall 2001): p2. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
15. Stimpson, Catharine R. "Polonius, our pundit." American Scholar. (Vol. 71). .4 (Autumn 2002): p97. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
16. Taylor, Mark. "Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Explicator. (Vol. 65). .1 (Fall 2006): p4. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
17. Terry, Reta A. ""Vows to the Blackest Devil": Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England." Renaissance Quarterly. (Vol. 52). .4 (Winter 1999): p1070. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
18. Tiffany, Grace. "Hamlet, reconciliation, and the just state." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature. (Vol. 58). .2 (Winter 2005): p111. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
19. Totaro, Rebecca. "Securing sleep in Hamlet." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. (Vol. 50). .2 (Spring 2010): p407. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
20. Zimmerman, Susan. "Psychoanalysis and the corpse." Shakespeare Studies. (Vol. 33). .(Annual 2005): p101. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Los Angeles Public Library. 24 Sept. 2010 <http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=lapl>.
HAMLET ARTICLES FROM JSTOR
1. The Thought of Hamlet and the Modern Temper, Moody E. Prior, ELH, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec., 1948), pp. 261-285, The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/28716172. Hamlet and the World of Ancient Tragedy, Martin Mueller, Arion, Third Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1997), pp. 22-45, Trustees of Boston University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163655
3. "Things Standing Thus Unknown": The Epistemology of Ignorance in "Hamlet", Eric P. Levy, Studies in Philology, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Spring, 2000), pp. 192-209, University of North Carolina Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174666
4. Shakespeare on Film, Gerald M. Camp, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Issue: The Performing Arts in Aesthetic Education (Jan., 1969), pp. 107-120, University of Illinois Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3331467
5. Some Methods of Approach to the Study of "Hamlet", Henry David Gray, Studies in Philology, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr., 1948), pp. 203-215, University of North Carolina Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4172845
6. Hamlet's Delay-A Restatement of the Problem, Bernard R. Conrad, PMLA, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Sep., 1926), pp. 680-687, Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/457622
7. Reading, Writing, and Memory in "Hamlet", Scott Huelin, Religion & Literature, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 25-44, The University of Notre Dame Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40059975
8. Hamlet and the Nature of Reality, Theodore Spencer, ELH, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Dec., 1938), pp. 253-277, The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2871606
9. Accommodating Death: The Ending of Hamlet, Richard Fly, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Spring, 1984), pp. 257-274, Rice University, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/450527
10. Polonius' Indirections: A Controlling Idea in "Hamlet", Richard K. Parker, The English Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Mar., 1968), pp. 339-344, National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/812227
11. What Happens in "Hamlet"? An Open Letter, W. W. Greg, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 1936), pp. 145-154, Modern Humanities Research Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3716289
12. Hamlet's Moment of Truth, Preston Thomas Roberts, Jr., The Journal of Religion, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct., 1969), pp. 351-370, The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1201815
13. "Our Means Will Make Us Means": Character as Virtue in Hamlet and All's Well, Warner Berthoff, New Literary History, Vol. 5, No. 2, Changing Views of Character (Winter, 1974), pp. 319-351, The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/468398
14. The Textual Mystery of Hamlet, Paul Werstine, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 1-26, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2870584
15. The King and "Hamlet", David Ward, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 280-302, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2870529
16. The Conflict in Hamlet, Michael Taylor, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring, 1971), pp. 147-161, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2868804
17. Hamlet and Holden, Clinton W. Trowbridge, The English Journal, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 26-29, National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/812517
18. Hamlet's Grief, Arthur Kirsch, ELH, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring, 1981), pp. 17-36, The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2873010
19. Ironic Reversal in Hamlet, Thomas F. Van Laan, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 6, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Spring, 1966), pp. 247-262, Rice University, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/449635
20. The Theory of Hamlet, James Feibleman, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1946), pp. 131-150, University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2707069
21. Hamlet's Hallucination, W. W. Greg, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Oct., 1917), pp. 393-421, Modern Humanities Research Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3714827
22. The Postures of Hamlet, Thomas Greene, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer, 1960), pp. 357-366, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2867301
23. In Defense of Hamlet, Robert Palfrey Utter, Jr., College English, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Dec., 1950), pp. 138-144, National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/372527
24. Narrative Universals, Heroic Tragi-Comedy, and Shakespeare's Political Ambivalence, Patrick Colm Hogan, College Literature, Vol. 33, No. 1, Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience (Winter, 2006), pp. 34-66, College Literature, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25115327
25. Essential "Hamlet", Jay L. Halio, College Literature, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), pp. 83-99, College Literature, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111020
26. Simulation of Substance and Shadow: Inner Emotions and Outer Behavior in Shakespeare's Psychology of Character, Keith Oatley, College Literature, Vol. 33, No. 1, Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience (Winter, 2006), pp. 15-33, College Literature, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25115326
27. "Vows to the Blackest Devil": Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England, Reta A. Terry, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 1070-1086, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901836
28. Hamlet, Claude C. H. Williamson, International Journal of Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Oct., 1922), pp. 85-100, The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2377179
29. "Hamlet": The Play and the Screenplay, William Shakespeare; Laurence Olivier, Hollywood Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Spring, 1948), pp. 293-300, University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1209700
30. On the Elizabethan Staging of Hamlet, Herbert E. Childs, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1962), pp. 463-474, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2867992
31. Lexical Choices and Aesthetic Success: A Computer Content Analysis of 154 Shakespeare Sonnets, Dean Keith Simonton, Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Aug., 1990), pp. 251-264, Springer. Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30204144
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