Hamlet, Shakespeare 's Most Famous Play, Is Now Available In An All-new, Illustrated Norton Critical Edition. Machine Generated Contents Note: The Text Of Hamlet -- Textual Notes -- Appendix 1 Passages From Quarto 1 (1603) -- Appendix 2 Passages From The Folio (1623) -- The Actors' Gallery -- Notes (1878) / Edwin Booth -- Letter To William Winter (1882) -- Introduction To Hamlet (1890) / Henry Irving -- Why I Have Played Male Parts (1924) / Sarah Bernhardt -- [on Ophelia] (1908) / Ellen Terry -- The Pathetic Women (1932) -- John Gielgud's Hamlet (1937) / John Gielgud -- A Note On Hamlet (1963) -- [on Hamlet's Character] (1982) / Laurence Olivier -- [on The 1948 Film] (1986) -- Introduction To Hamlet (1954) / Richard Burton -- Introduction To Hamlet (1996) / Kenneth Branagh -- Hamlet: A User's Guide (1996) / Michael Pennington -- National Public Radio Interview (2009) / Jude Law -- Contexts -- The Bible -- Greek Tragedy -- The Libation-bearers (458 Bce) / Aeschylus -- Electra (c. 400 Bce) / Sophocles -- Electra (c. 418 Bce) / Euripides -- Orestes (408 Bce) -- Agamemnon (first Century) / Seneca Thyestes (first Century) -- Historica Danica (1180-1208) / Saxo Grammaticus -- Inferno (c. 1315) / Dante Alighieri -- The Supplication Of Souls (1529) / Thomas More -- The Spanish Tragedy (1592) / Thomas Kyd -- Criticism -- Preface To Troilus And Cressida (1679) / John Dryden -- Some Account Of The Life, &c. Of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709) / Nicholas Rowe -- Preface To Semiramis (1748) / Voltaire -- Du Theatre Anglais (1761) -- Notes On Hamlet (1765) / Samuel Johnson -- Letter To David Garrick (1771) / George Steevens -- [on Hamlet's Character] (1785) -- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) / Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -- Lecture On Hamlet (1812) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Letter To James H. Hackett (1839) / John Quincy Adams -- Review Of William Hazlitt (1845) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Letter To James H. Hackett (1863) / Abraham Lincoln -- Shakespeare And The Drama (1908) / Leo Tolstoy -- Hamlet And Orestes (1914) / Gilbert Murray -- A Psycho-analytic Study Of Hamlet (1992) / Ernest Jones [irony In Hamlet] (1959) / Harry Levin -- Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, And The Responsibilities Of Feminist Criticism (1985) / Elaine Showalter -- Hamlet In Purgatory (2001) / Stephen Greenblatt -- An Annotated And Chronological Screenography (2002) / Kenneth S. Rothwell -- Women As Hamlet (2007) / Tony Howard -- Empires Of World History (2007) / Margreta De Grazia -- Afterlives -- Der Bestrafte Brudermord (seventeenth Century) -- [partridge And The Ghost] (1749) / Henry Fielding -- [the Ending Of Hamlet] (1772) Hamlet Travesties / David Garrick -- Hamlet Travesties -- Hamlet Travestie (1849) / John Poole -- Hamlet Travestie (1849) / Francis Talfourd -- An Old Play In A New Garb (1853) / George Edward Rice -- [mr. Wopsle's Hamlet] (1861) / Charles Dickens -- [huck Finn On Hamlet] (1885) / Mark Twain -- Hamlet (1946) / Boris Pasternak -- Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) / Tom Stoppard -- Hamletmachine (1977) / Heiner Muller -- Forget Hamlet (1994) / Jawad Al-assadi -- Gertrude And Claudius (2000) / John Updike -- Something Rotten (2004) / Jasper Fforde. William Shakespeare ; Edited By Robert S. Miola. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 391-397).

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