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Bibliographies and Reference Books

General Works on Elizabethan Stagecraft

Selected Editions

Selected Studies

Modern Versions of the Hamlet Story

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE

Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1965. {VMI}

Bevington, David M., ed. Shakespeare. The Goldentree Bibliographies. Arlington Heights, Ill : AHM Pub. Corp., 1978. {VMI}

Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Vol VII. London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. {VMI}

Champion, Larry S. The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1986. {VMI}

Dietrich, Julia, ed. Hamlet in the 1960s: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1992. {UVA}

Ebisch, Walther. A Shakespeare Bibliography. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931; rptd. B. Blom, 1968. {VMI}

Ebisch, Walther. Supplement for the Years 1930-1935, to A Shakespeare Bibliography. New York: B. Blom, 1964. {VMI}

Granville-Barker, Harley, and G. B. Harrison eds. A Companion to Shakespeare Studies.New York: The Macmillan Company; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1934. {VMI}

Guttman, Selma. The Foreign Sources of Shakespeare's Works; An Annotated Bibliography of the Commentary Written on this Subject Between 1904 and 1940, Together with Lists of Certain Translations Available to Shakespeare. New York, Octagon Books, 1947; rptd.1968.

Howard-Hill, T. H. Shakespearian Bibliography and Textual Criticism: A Bibliography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. {VMI}

Kliman, Bernice W. Hamlet: Film, Television, and Audio Performance. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1988.

Larque, Thomas. Ophelia Bibliography. http://shakespearean.org.uk/ophbib1.htm

McManaway, James Gilmer. A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare: Editions, Textual Studies, Commentary. Charlottesville: Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by University Press of Virginia, 1975. {VMI}

Mooney, Michael E. Hamlet: An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespeare Studies, 1604-1998. Pegasus Shakespeare Bibliographies. Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1999. {VMI Dept. of English Daniels Library}

Muir, Kenneth, and S. Schoenbaum, eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. {VMI}

Raven, Anton Adolph. A Hamlet Bibliography and Reference Guide, 1877-1935. Chicago: The Unversity of Chicago Press, 1936. {VMI}

Robinson, Randal F. Hamlet in the 1950's: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984. {W&L}

Rosenblum, Joseph. Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1992. {VMI}

Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, 1990. {W&L}

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1984. {VMI}

Smith, Gordon Ross. A Classified Shakespeare Bibliography, 1936-1958. University Park: Pennyslvania State University Press, 1963. {VMI}

Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. {UVA}

Wilson, John Dover. The Essential Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Adventure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932. {VMI}

Woodbridge, Linda. Shakespeare, A Selective Bibliography of Modern Criticism. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1988. {VMI}

GENERAL WORKS ON ELIZABETHAN STAGECRAFT

Bates, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson, eds. Shakespeare: An Illlustrated Stage History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. {VMI}

Boas, Frederick S. University Drama in the Tudor Age. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1914. {VMI}

Bradbrook, M.C. Elizabethan Stage Conditions: A Study of Their Place in the Interpretation of Shakespeare's Plays. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1962. {VMI}

Bradbrook, M.C. The Living Monument: Shakespeare and the Theatre of His Time. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976; rptd. 1979. {VMI}

Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923. {VMI}

Craik, W.T. The Tudor Interlude: Stage, Costume, and Acting. Leicester: University Press, 1958. {VMI}

Dessen, Alan. Elizabethan Drama and the Viewer's Eye. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977; rpt. 1979. {VMI}

Dessen, Alan. Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. {VMI}

Galloway, David, ed. The Elizabethan Theatre III: Papers Presented at the Third International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre, 1970, University of Waterloo. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1973. {VMI}

Griffin, Alice S.V. Pageantry on the Shakespearean Stage. New York: Twayne, 1951. {VMI}

Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. Cambridge: University Press, 1970. {VMI}

Hillebrand, Harold Newcomb. The Child Actors: A Chapter in Elizabethan Stage History. New York: Russell and Russell, 1926; rptd. 1964. {VMI}

Lawrence, William John. The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies. 2 Volumes. New York: Russell and Russell, 1912-1913; rptd. 1963. {VMI}

Lawrence, William John. Pre-Restoration Stage Studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. {VMI}

Speaight, Robert. William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival. London: Heinemann, 1954. {VMI}

SELECTED EDITIONS

Barnet, Sylvan, ed. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Second Edition. New York: Signet, 1998.

Bertram, Paul, and Bernice W. Kliman. The Three-Text Hamlet. New York: AMS Press, 1991. (See also the online version of Q2 and F1, The Enfolded Hamlet, by Kliman.)

Bevington, David, ed. Hamlet. New York: Bantam Classics, 1988.

Farnham, Willard. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Pelican Shakespeare. New York: Penguin Books, 1957. {VMI}

Furness, H.H., gen. ed. Hamlet: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, Vols. 3 and 4. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1871-1955. {VMI}

Hapgood, Robert. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare in Production). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. {VMI}

Hibbard, G.R., ed. The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet. Stanley Wells, gen. ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Also in Shakespeare, The Complete Works. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, gen. eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. {VMI}

Hoy, Cyrus, ed. Hamlet: An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism. New York: Norton, 1963. {VMI}

Jenkins, Harold, ed. The New Arden Shakespeare: Hamlet. London; New York: Methuen, 1982; 2nd ed. 1997; also in The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, gen. eds.; Harold Jenkins, consultant editor. Walton-on-Thames: Thomas Nelson, 1998. {W&L}

Mack, Maynard, and Robert W. Boynton, eds. The Tragedy of Hamlet. New York: Boynton/Cook Pub, 1990.

Mowat, Barbara A., and Paul Werstine, eds. The Tragedy of Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare). Washington, D.C.: Washington Square Press, 1992.

Spencer, T.J. Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare). New York: Viking Press, 1991.

Wofford, Susanne L., ed. Hamlet: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994. {VMI}

SELECTED STUDIES

Bevington, David M. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hamlet: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1968. {VMI}

Bloom, Harold, ed. Hamlet. Major Literary Characters. New York : Chelsea House, 1990. {VMI}

Bloom, Harold. Hamlet, Poem Unlimited. New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. {W&L}

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. (especially Chapt. 23, pp. 383-431) {VMI}

Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Modern Critical Interpretations. New York : Chelsea House, 1986 (W&L}

Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth. New York: Meridian Books, 1955. {VMI}

Brown, John Russell. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet." Connotations 2.1 (1992): 16-33 (available online).

Clemen, W.H. "The Imagery of Hamlet." In Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Leonard F. Dean, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957, rptd. 1968. 222-236. {VMI}

Dawson, Anthony B. Hamlet. Shakespeare in Performance. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. {W&L}

Eckert, Charles W. Focus on Shakespearean Films. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1972. {W&L}

Eliot, T.S. "Hamlet and His Problems." In The Sacred Wood. London: Methuen, 1920. 95-103; rptd. in Selected Essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932, rpt. 1947 and 1950. 121-126. {VMI}

Gardner, Helen. "The Historical Approach: Hamlet." In Shakespeare, the Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964. 61-70. {VMI}

Granville-Barker, Harley. Prefaces to Shakespeare. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1946-47. {VMI}

Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. {VMI}

Jenkins, Harold. "The Relation Between the Second Quarto and the Folio Text of Hamlet." Studies in Bibliography, Volume 7 (1955): 69-83 (available online).

Jones, Ernest. Hamlet and Oedipus. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. {W&L}

Kerrigan, William. Hamlet's Perfection. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. {W&L}

Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy, with Three New Essays. London: Methuen, 1968. {VMI}

Kott, Jan. "Hamlet of the Mid-Century." In Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Boleslaw Taborski, trans. Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1964. {VMI}

Lavender, Andy. Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Reworked: Peter Brook, Robert LePage, Robert Wilson. New York: Continuum, 2001. {VMI}

Levin, Harry. The Question of Hamlet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959, rptd. 1978. {VMI}

Lewis, C.S. "Death in Hamlet." In Shakespeare, the Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1964. 71-74. {VMI}

Lidz, Theodore. Hamlet's Enemy : Madness and Myth in Hamlet. New York : Basic Books, 1975. {W&L}

Mack, Maynard. "The World of Hamlet." In Shakespeare, the Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays. Alfred Harbage, ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964. 44-60. [also in Barnet's edition of Hamlet, pp.191-213, and in Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Leonard F. Dean, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957, rptd. 1968.] {VMI}

Malone, Kemp. The Literary History of Hamlet: The Early Tradition. New York, Haskell House, 1964. {VMI}

McGee, Arthur. The Elizabethan Hamlet. New Haven: Yale, 1987. {VMI}

Mills, John A. Hamlet on Stage: The Great Tradition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. {VMI}

Mowat, Barbara A. "The Problem of Shakespeare's Text(s)." In Textual Formations and Reformations. Laurie E. Maguire and Thomas L. Berger, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998. {W&L}

Muir, Kenneth and Stanley Wells, eds. Aspects of Hamlet: Articles Reprinted from Shakespeare Survey. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. {VMI}

Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare: Hamlet. New York: Barron's Educational Series, 1963. {VMI}

Muir, Kenneth. The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. (Chapt. 24, pp. 158-169) {VMI}

Prosser, Eleanor. Hamlet and Revenge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1967. {VMI}

Rose, Jacqueline. "Sexuality in the Reading of Shakespeare: Hamlet and Measure for Measure. In Alternative Shakepseares. John Drakakis, ed. London ; New York: Methuen, 1985. {VMI}

Rothwell, Kenneth S. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. {W&L}

Showalter, Elaine. "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism." In Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman, eds. New York: Methuen, 1985. 77-94. {W&L}

Spurgeon, Caroline. Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935; rptd. Boston: Beacon Press, 1958. esp. 316-318. {VMI}

Walker, Roy. "Hamlet: The Opening Scene." In Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Leonard F. Dean, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957, rptd. 1968. 216-221. {VMI}

Welsh, Alexander. Hamlet in Modern Guises. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. {VMI}

Werstine, Paul. "The Textual Mystery of Hamlet." Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988): 1-26. {VMI}

Wilson, John Dover. What Happens in Hamlet. New York, Macmillan, 1936. {VMI}

MODERN VERSIONS OF THE HAMLET STORY

I. Movies

A. The first list includes feature films and television movies. Most are actual productions of Hamlet; a few, like the earliest, are just clips of performances; some are parodies or exploitations, but they use the original plot and characters by name, though sometimes in a new setting, so I have not categorized them as "spin-offs"; a couple are non-Shakespearean versions based on Saxo Grammaticus.