Readings on Hamlet (The Greenhaven Press Literary Companion to British Literature)

Essays Discuss The Plot, Structure, Setting, Wordplay, Characterization, Themes, Stagings, And Interpretations Of Hamlet. The Story Told In Hamlet / Marchette Chute -- Hamlet And The Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy Formula / Phyllis Abrahms And Alan Brody -- The Play's Courtly Setting / R.a. Foakes -- Soliloquies And Other Wordplay Let The Audience Share Some Of Hamlet's Thoughts / John Russell Brown -- Hamlet: A Man Who Thinks Before He Acts / Louis B. Wright And Virginia A. Lamar -- The Ghost: Messenger From A Higher Court Of Values? / Philip Edwards -- Ophelia: Madness Her Only Safe Haven / Michael Pennington -- Gertrude: Scheming Adulteress Or Loving Mother? / Rebecca Smith -- Laertes: An Impulsive But Earnest Young Aristocrat / Martin Rosenberg -- Grief That Leads To Tragedy / Lily B. Campbell -- The Supernatural In Hamlet / Cumberland Clark -- A Court And World Infected By The Disease Of Corruption / Rebecca West -- None Can Escape Death, The Undiscovered Country / Michael Neill -- Hamlet's Christian Beliefs Stifle His Heroic Impulse / Paul A. Cantor -- John Geilgud's Interpretation Of Hamlet Sheds Light On The Play / Mary Z. Maher -- An Actor's Interpretation Of Hamlet / Laurence Olivier -- A Television Interpretation Of Hamlet / Bernice W. Kliman -- A Stage Production Of Hamlet / Richard L. Sterne -- An Uncut Film Version Of Hamlet / Richard Alleva. Don Nardo, Book Editor. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 175-179) And Index. Works By William Shakespeare: P. 180-181. This book includes nineteen critical essays on "Hamlet" and a biography of William Shakespeare