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Books : Poetry, Drama & Criticism : Shakespeare, William : Criticism & Study Aids : Plays : Hamlet

• "Hamlet" (York Notes Advanced)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)

  William Shakespeare

  
  Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.

  For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton

  
   

• Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare: Third)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Cambridge Student Guide to Hamlet (Cambridge Student Guides)

  Rex Gibson

  
  
   

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (New Cambridge Shakespeare) (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Hamlet (Norton Critical Editions)

  W Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Hamlet (Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Shakespeare Made Easy - Hamlet (Shakespeare Made Easy)

  Alan Durband

  
  
   

• Notes on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (Cliffs Notes)

  Carla Lynn Stockton

  
  
   

• Hamlet (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare) (No Fear Shakespeare)

  William Shakespeare, John Crowther

  
  
   

• Hamlet (RSC Shakespeare)

  Shakespeare W

  
  
   

• Hamlet (Sparknotes)

  Spark Notes, William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" (New Penguin Shakespeare library)

  A.C. Bradley

  
  
   

• The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet (Oxford World's Classics)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Gift Volume - "Tempest", Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Twelfth Night", "Midsummer Night's Dream", "Romeo and Juliet" (Shakespeare : the animated tales)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• Hamlet in Pieces

  Andy Lavender

  
  
   

• Hamlet The Texts of 1603 and 1623 (Arden Shakespeare Third Series)

  William Shakespeare

  
  
   

• "Hamlet" for Kids (Shakespeare Can Be Fun!)

  Lois Burdett

  
  
   

• Shakespeare - Hamlet (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

  
  
   

• Hamlet

  William Shakespeare

  
  Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.

  For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton