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» A Note on Hamlet's Illegitimacy: Identifying a Source of the "dram of eale" Speech (Q2 1.4.17-38)
   Steve Sohmer identifies a previously unrecognized source for Hamlet's speech: De Laudibus Legum Angliae, written by Sir John Fortescue (1394? - 1476?), Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Henry VI.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/sohmnote.htm

» A Romance of Electronic Scholarship, with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
   Donald Foster focuses on the Q1 Hamlet.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/fostshak.html

» A Synoptic Hamlet: A Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet
   Steve Roth reviews the Jesús Tronch-Pérez book.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-3/rothrev.htm

» Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther
   Steve Sohmer argues that Shakespeare linked the principal events in Hamlet to particular holy days, and that the play's first audiences could identify these holy days from cues in the text.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/sohmshak.html

» Characters of Shakespear's Plays
   By William Hazlitt. First Published 1817.
   http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-haz.htm

» Hamlet as the Christmas Prince: Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, Revels, and Misrule
   Steve Roth analyzes a two-month trope in the Hamlet quartos.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/2RothHam.htm

» Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets
   By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From a lecture given in 1818. Lectures collected by T. Ashe; first Published 1883.
   http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-col.htm

» Loose Ends and Inconsistencies in the First Quarto of Shakespeare's
   Y. S. Bains rebuts G. R. Hibbard's general conclusions about the quality of the text of Q1.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/LOOSE%20ENDS.txt

» Making Mother MatterRepression, Revision, and the Stakes of Reading Psychoanalysis Into Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
   Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks argue that "Branagh's Hamlet reproduces the Oedipal triangle in its most conspicuous, paternalistic form."
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm

» O'ertopping Pelion: Hamlet, Laertes, and the Revenge Tradition
   Hardin Aasand suggests that the early editions of Hamlet (Q1, Q2, F1) convey disparities in their treatment of Hamlet's and Laertes's disposition at Ophelia's graveyard.
   http://www.unibas.ch/shine/revengeaasand.htm

» Performance, Subjectivity and Slander in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing
   Adam Piette suggests that Goffman's interpretative framework and key terms are useful when interpreting performances of Shakespeare's plays.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/pietslan.htm

» Renaissance Tragedy and Investigator Heroes
   Article focusing on Hamlet and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy.
   http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/renaissance_tragedy_investigators.html

» Samuel Johnson - Notes on Hamlet
   Edited by Walter Raleigh. First Published 1908.
   http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-joh.htm

» Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self
   Roger Starling reviews the John Lee book.
   http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-2/starlrev.htm

» Table Talk on Hamlet
   By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Very short notes on Hamlet: Polonius and Hamlet with Ophelia. Taken as extracts from Coleridge's "Table Talk."
   http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham2-col.htm

» The Origin of Hamlet: All The Year Round
   From the 8th February 1879 edition of Charles Dickens's journal "All The Year Round." Mainly a discussion of The Hystorie of Hamblet, an anonymous English novel based on Belleforest and Saxo Grammaticus, which may have been used as a source for Shakespear
   http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-dic.htm