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• Certain Speculations onHamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther.

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

  Sohmer, Steve. "Certain Speculations onHamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther."Early Modern Literary Studies2.1 (1996): 1.1-2. Sohmer briefly examines the connections other critics have made betweenHamletand 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2007-11-30

• Hearing Green: Logomarginality inHamlet- Introduction

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

  Smith, Bruce R. "Hearing Green: Logomarginality inHamlet"Early Modern Literary Studies7.1/Special Issue 8 (May, 2001): 1.1-2. Beginning with an audioclip of segments from the first two scenes ofHamlet, 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments ofHamlet

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

  Russell Brown. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments ofHamlet."Connotations2.1 (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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2006-02-20

• Ophelia - A Letter by a Victorian Actress (Hamlet)

  http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-fau.htm

  Faucit, Helena. "Ophelia"Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. 6th ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899: 3-21. Excerpt transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. A discussion of the character of Ophelia by one the the actresses famous for playing her in the Victorian period:

  keywords: actress, criticism, Ham, hamlet, ophelia, victorian

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• 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 viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. A performance-oriented study of Queen Gertrude inHamlet's First Quarto.

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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The GermanHamlet

  http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/bruder~1.htm#I.iia

  Anonymous.De Brudermord (Fratricide Punished): Tragoedia Der bestrafte Brudermord oder PrinzHamletaus Dannemark. This German play, ambiguously related toHamlet, is available in translation from Clifford Stetner of Columbia University:

  keywords: Ham, hamlet, german

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Anonymous

  valid as of 2005-09-13

• The Mixture of "High" and "Low" Culture inHamletI,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 inHamletI,i: A Close Reading." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Hill argues that popular culture is not folk culture but low culture elevated to high ; he examinesHamlet1.1 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

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• The Tragicall Historie ofHamletPrince of Denmarke (1603 Quarto)

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaHaQ1.html

  The University of Virginia's transcription of the First Quarto forHamletis available at theirElectronic Text Center:

  keywords: Ham, hamlet, historie, quarto

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-09-13