Links Database: Hamlet

• Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther.

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/sohmshak.html

  Sohmer, Steve. "Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (1996): 1.1-2. Sohmer briefly examines the connections other critics have made between Hamlet and the Reformation as well as the role played by the dates mentioned within the text, the dates Shakespeare's acting company carefully chose for the initial performances of plays, and the dating of the text:

  keywords: calendar, date, dating, Ham, hamlet, luther

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Hamlet Haven

  http://www.hamlethaven.com

  This website, created by Harmonie Blankenship, hopes to assist in the navigation of Hamlet scholarship by grouping scholarly publications that use similar approaches and that treat similar subjects. You can narrow your search by selecting characters, subjects, or approaches:

  keywords: Ham, Hamlet, Ophelia, criticism, scholarship, bibliography, annotation

  valid as of 2007-11-30

• Hearing Green: Logomarginality in Hamlet - Introduction

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/logomarg/intro.htm

  Smith, Bruce R. "Hearing Green: Logomarginality in Hamlet" Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 1.1-2. Beginning with an audioclip of segments from the first two scenes of Hamlet, Smith considers Prince Hamlet's coming-to-presence in the play's original performances through three frames: the physical, the dramaturgical, and the physiological:

  keywords: audio, Ham, hamlet, frame

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet

  http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/BROWN21.HTM

  Russell Brown. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet." Connotations 2.1 (1992): 16-33. Russell Brown analyses what the last scenes of the play, particularly the death scenes, add to the characterization of Hamlet and our understanding of his interaction with the world:

  keywords: death, Ham, hamlet

  valid as of 2006-02-20

• Queen of the First Quarto

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/HAMLETQ1%20QUEEN.txt

  Shand, G.B. "Queen of the First Quarto." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. A performance-oriented study of Queen Gertrude in Hamlet's First Quarto.

  keywords: gertrude, Ham, hamlet, performance, quarto, queen

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The Mixture of "High" and "Low" Culture in Hamlet I,i: a Close Reading

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/HIGH_LOW%20CULTURE.txt

  Hill, Harry. "The Mixture of 'High' and 'Low' Culture in Hamlet I,i: A Close Reading." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies. Hill argues that popular culture is not folk culture but low culture elevated to high ; he examines Hamlet 1.1 to provide examples of Shakespeare's ability to elevate low culture by reproducing the way people speak and think in metaphor and verbal texture.

  keywords: culture, Ham, hamlet, low, popular

  valid as of 2005-09-07