Research Essay – Critical Sources
Topic A – Hamlet as Tragic Hero
Aichinger, C. P. "Hamlet and the Modern Dilemma." Culture 29.2 (June 1968): 142-149. Rpt. in
Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Dana Ramel Barnes. Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Research,
1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2011.
Levy, Eric. “The Problematic Relation between Reason and Emotion in Hamlet.” Renascence:
Essays on Values in Literature. 53.2 (Winter 2001): 83-95. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2
May 2011.
Lidz, Theodore. “Hamlet’s Precarious Emotional Balance.” Hamlet’s Enemy: Madness and Myth
in Hamlet (1975): 60-67. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Dana Ramel Barnes. Vol.
35. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.
Massie, Allan. “Prince of self-pity.” Spectator. 15 Jul. 2006. Literature Resource Center. Web.
10 Dec. 2011.
Werder, Karl. “The Heart of Hamlet’s Mystery.” Trans. Elizabeth Wilder. The Heart of Hamlet’s
Mystery. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen
Harris. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May
2011.
Topic B – Hamlet’s Moral Beliefs
Andrews, Michael Cameron. “Hamlet: Revenge and the Critical Mirror.” English Literary
Renaissance 8.1 (Winter 1978): 9-23). Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Dana Ramel
Barnes. Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr.
2011.
Jenkins, Harold. "'To be, or not to be': Hamlet's Dilemma." Hamlet Studies 13.1 and 2 (1991): 824. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 91. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 11 Dec. 2011
Johnson, Edgar. "The Dilemma of Hamlet (William Shakespeare: Hamlet)." EXPLORING
Shakespeare. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Dec.
2011.
Knowles, Ronald. “Hamlet and Counter-Humanism.” Renaissance Quarterly 52.4 (1999): 1046.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.
Stegner, Paul D. "'Try what repentance can': Hamlet, Confession, and the Extraction of
Interiority." Shakespeare Studies 35 (2007): 105-129. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism.
Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 120. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11
Dec. 2011.
Topic C – Ophelia’s Madness
Chapman, Alison A. “Ophelia’s ‘old lauds’: madness and hagiography in Hamlet.” Medieval and
Renaissance Drama in England 20 (2007): 111+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2
May 2001.
Cohen, Joshua. “Mermaid-like: the tragedy of Ophelia.” Shakespeare Newsletter Fall 2006: 57.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2011.
Dreher, Diane Elizabeth. “Dominated Daughters.” Domination and Defiance: Fathers and
Daughters in Shakespeare. The University Press of Kentucky, 1986: 76-95. Rpt. in
Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Dana Ramel Varnes. Vol. 36. Detroit: Gale Research,
1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2011.
Lidz, Theodore. "Hamlet's Enemy: Madness and Myth in Hamlet." EXPLORING Shakespeare.
Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Dec. 2011
Showalter, Elaine. “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of
Feminist Criticism.” Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. Ed. Patricia Parker and
Geoffrey Hartman. 1985: 77-94. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Dana Ramel
Barnes. Vol. 35. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May
2011.
Topic D – Horatio’s Friendship
Doubt, Keith. “Hamlet and Friendship.” Hamlet Studies 17.1/2 (1995): 54-62. Rpt in
Shakespearean Criticism. Ed Michelle Lee. Vol. 82. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.
Evans, Robert C. “Friendship in Hamlet.” Comparative Drama 33.1 (Spring 1999): 88-124) Rpt.
in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 83. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2011.
Wimsatt, James I. “The Player King on Friendship.” Modern Language Review 65.1 (Jan. 1970):
1-6. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 83. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.
Topic E – Gertrude’s Guilt
Bradley, A. C. "Lecture IV: Hamlet." EXPLORING Shakespeare. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale
Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Dec. 2011.
Jardine, Lisa. “No Offence i’ th’ World:’ Hamlet and Unlawful Marriage.” Uses of History:
Marxist, Postmodernism and the Renaissance. Manchester University Press, 1991. 123139. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Michale L. LaBlanc. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale,
2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2011.
Heilbrun, Carolyn. "The Character of Hamlet's Mother." EXPLORING Shakespeare. Detroit:
Gale, 2003. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 11 Dec. 2011.
Levin, Richard. “Gertrude’s elusive libido and Shakespeare’s unreliable narrators.” Studies in
English Literature, 1500-1900 48.2 (2008): 305+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2
May 2011.
Topic E – Laertes’s Conscience
Burton, Anthony. “Laertes’s rebellion: further aspects of inheritance law in ‘Hamlet.’(Critical
Essay).” Shakespeare Newsletter Fall 2002: 61+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 18
Apr. 2011.
Doubt, Keith. “Hamlet and Friendship.” Hamlet Studies 17.1/2 (1995): 54-62. Rpt in
Shakespearean Criticism. Ed Michelle Lee. Vol. 82. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 18 Apr. 2011.
Tiffany, Grace. “Hamlet, reconciliation, and the just state.” Renascence: Essays on Values in
Literature. 52.8 (Winter 2005): 111. Literature Resource Center. Web. 2 May 2011.