Hamlet by William Shakespeare | Resources

Hamlet Sources For Further Study

Literary Commentary

Bonjour, Adrien. "The Question of Hamlet's Grief."

English Studies: A Journal of English Letters and Philology 43 (1962): 336-43.

Refutes the notion that Hamlet suffers from excessive grief over his father's death by studying the critical perspective which treats him as a "slave of passion."

Brown, John Russell and Harris, Bernard, eds. Hamlet, Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies 5. London: Edward Arnold (Publishers), 1963.

Contains ten essays discussin_ awide range of topics in Hamlet by such notecf scholars as G. K. Hunter, R. A. Foakes, John Russell Brown, and Stanley Wells.

Burge, Barbara. "'Hamlet': The Search for Identity." A Review of English Literature 5, No.2 (April 1964): 58-71.

Maintains that Hamlet's search for identity focuses on the merging of two different perspectives: external observations by Hamlet himself and others and the internal workings of his mind.

Calderwood, James L. "Hamlet: The Name of Action." Modem Language...
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