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Keyword hamlet
A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet- http://web.archive.org/web/20041013134453/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/index.html
- Ian Delaney's A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet offers a wealth of information for the intrepid student. The site offers commentary on each act, poses questions, and provides very informative supplementary materials and excerpts from influential criticism:
- keywords: criticism, exerpts, delaney, hamlet, questions, study guide
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses
- valid as of 2005-10-25
ANIMATIONS: The Audition- http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S99/animation/the_audition.html
- View a clip of a computer-animated frog haming it up for an audition for Hamlet:
- keywords: animation, audition, clip, hamlet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-08
Enjoying Hamlet by William Shakespeare- http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm
- This site on Hamlet provides summaries and commentary. Directed towards high school and college students, the site is approachable and provides some good information and further links. Its one drawback is that all the material is loaded in one page, which makes for slow loading and rather unweildy navigation:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, summaries
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) Movie Links
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6261/hamlet.html
- An unofficial site devoted to Branagh's Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Charlton Heston, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams). Includes reviews, interviews and a discussion forum:
- keywords: forum, ham, hamlet, kenneth, branagh, movie, film
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
Hamlet Folio- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/F1/Scene/
- The 1623 Folio edition of Hamlet available at the Internet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: edition, folio, ham, hamlet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Hamlet Online- http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/
- Hamlet Online is a fantastically comprehensive site created by John Hubbard, an Electronic Source Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Navigate through this page to find a number of sites offering course materials, full texts, translations, and Hamlet pages ranging from the seriously studious to the humorous and playful:
- keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, links, papers, summaries, translation
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-10-18
Hamlet Quarto 1- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/Q1/Scene/
- The First Quarto for Hamlet available from the Internet Shakespeare Editions :
- keywords: ham, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Hamlet Quarto 2: Table of Contents- http://ise.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Ham/Q2/Scene/
- The 1604 Second Quarto is available at the Internet Shakespeare Editions:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Hamlet Works- http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/
- Hamletworks.org offers the First Folio and Second Quarto of Hamlet, as well as an enfolded version of the two. This excellent search tool allows a text search with variable amounts of surrounding lines for context:
- keywords: course, first, folio, ham, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Hypertexts
- valid as of 2005-09-12
Hamlet Works- http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/
- Hamletworks.org offers a sophisticated search of the play's text which allows quick comparison of the quarto and folio versions:
- keywords: annotation, folio, hamlet, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-10-21
- Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country by Steve Roth
- http://princehamlet.com
- Roth, Steve. Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country. An examination of Hamlet that begins with the question "How old was Hamlet? Thirty, or a teenager?" This site is meant to support and expand the book, with the first chapter included online:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, roth, book
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2006-02-20
- On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet
- http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/docshort/onseeham.htm
- Robins, Elizabeth. "On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet." North American Review, 171 (December 1900): 908-19. An article written by famous Ibsen actress Elizabeth Robins on the faults of the character of Hamlet being played by a woman:
- keywords: actress, elizabeth, ham, hamlet, review, bernhardt
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Actors
- valid as of 2005-09-08
- 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 via Early Modern Literary Studies. A performance-oriented study of Queen Gertrude in Hamlet's First Quarto.
- keywords: gertrude, Ham, hamlet, performance, quarto, queen
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- Saxo Grammaticus: Book III
- http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/saxo~1.htm
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Saxo Grammaticus. Book III. This principle source of Hamlet is made available by Clifford Stetner of Columbia University:
- keywords: hamlet, saxo, grammaticus
- found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > European > Saxo Grammaticus
- valid as of 2005-09-14
Shakespeare Lectures- http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lectures.htm
- Johnson, Ian. Lectures: Studies in Shakespeare Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, Spring 2002. Course lectures on numerous Shakespeare plays including Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II, and Richard III as well as Shakespeare background material:
- keywords: ant, anthony, cleopatra, ayl, as you like it, lectures, english, ham, hamlet, 1h4, h8, henry, lr, king, lear, mac, macbeth, r2, r3, richard, tempest, tmp, twelfth night, tn
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Shakespeare Navigators
- http://www.clicknotes.com
- Here you can find the complete text A. C. Bradley's critical classic, "Shakespearean Tragedy." This site was created by Philip Weller:
- keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, lectures, london, mac, macbeth, oth, othello, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials
- valid as of 2005-09-06
- Stick Figure Hamlet
- http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com/
- Dan Carrol is the creator of this humourous Hamlet, done completely in the guise of comic stick figures. The site is updated with a new page three times a week:
- keywords: comic, ham, hamlet
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Fun stuff
- valid as of 2006-06-16
- The German Hamlet
- http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/bruder~1.htm#I.iia
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Anonymous. De Brudermord (Fratricide Punished): Tragoedia Der bestrafte Brudermord oder Prinz Hamlet aus Dannemark. This German play, ambiguously related to Hamlet, 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 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
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-07
- The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke (1603 Quarto)
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaHaQ1.html
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The University of Virginia's transcription of the First Quarto for Hamlet is available at their Electronic Text Center:
- keywords: Ham, hamlet, historie, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-13
- The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke (1604 Quarto)
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/ShaHaQ2.html
- The 1604 Second Quarto for Hamlet is available through the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia:
- keywords: ham, hamlet, historie, quarto
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Old spelling > Hamlet
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One of Hamlet
- http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/hamlet/hirsh.pdf
- Hirsh, James. "To Take Arms Against a Sea of Anomalies: Laurence Olivier's Film Adaptation of Act Three, Scene One of Hamlet." This document is available in Adobe Acrobat format at EnterText1.2:
- keywords: film, ham, hamlet, james, oliver
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Performance > Movies
- valid as of 2005-09-09
- Booth's Hamlet (Promptbook of J.B. Pitman)
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_booth&PagePosition=1
- Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet. New York : Printed for William Winter, by Francis Hart & Co., 1879. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, promptbook, tragedy, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- D'Avenant's Hamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_1676&PagePosition=1
- The Furness Collection houses the text The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark : As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. London : Printed by Andr. Clark, for J. Martyn, and H. Herringman, 1676. (Hamlet):
- keywords: denmark, ham, hamlet, london, theater, tragedy, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_robertson&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Forbes Robertson. London: Nassau Press, 1897. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, london, stage
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Forrest's Hamlet Promptbook
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_forrest&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet. New York: Printed for the publishers by Torrey Brothers, 1860. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, promptbook, york
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Irving's Hamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_irving&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet : a tragedy in five acts, by William Shakespeare, as arranged for the stage by Henry Irving. London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1879. (Hamlet):
- keywords: ham, hamlet, london, stage, tragedy
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12
- Johnson's and Steevens's Hamlet
- http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/CETI/Furness/index.cfm?TextID=hamlet_johnson&PagePosition=1
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. From The plays of William Shakespeare... : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. London: Printed for C. Bathurst, 1773. (Hamlet):
- keywords: denmark, ham, hamlet, london
- found in: Shakespeare Sites > Texts > Facsimiles
- valid as of 2005-09-12