Hamlet

William Shakespeare

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Bradley, A. C. Shakespearean Tragedy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, reprint edition 2007.

Eliot, T. S. “Hamlet and His Problems.” In The Sacred Wood. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, reprint edition 1997.

Frye, Northrop. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, reprint edition 1996.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Husain, Adrian A. Politics and Genre in Hamlet. New York: Oxford University Press, reprint edition 2007.

Kerrigan, Wililam. Hamlet’ s Perfection. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Kinney, Arthur F. Hamlet: Critical Essays. Oxford, UK: Routledge, Inc., 2001.

Wilson, John Dover. What Happens in Hamlet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1951.

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