Alexander, Nigel. Poison, Play, and Duel: A Study in Hamlet. 1971.

Topic: Whatever pops into Alexander's head.
Grade: F

Alexander, Peter. Hamlet: Father and Son. 1955.

Topics: Tragic flaw, catharsis, Hamlet as tragic hero.
Grade: C

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. 1998.

Topics: Falstaff, Nietzsche, Hamnet Shakespeare, Shakespeare's first Hamlet.
Grade: F

Booth, Stephen. "On the Value of Hamlet." 1969

Topic: Contradictions in Hamlet.
Grade: C

Brown, John Russell. "Multiplicity of Meaning in the Last Moments of Hamlet." 1992.

Topics:Hamlet's wordplay, Hamlet's appeal to us.
Grade: A-

Cook, Hardy M. "Reformatting Hamlet: Creating a Q1 Hamlet for Television."1996 . Online.

Topic:How Q1 is different from the usual text of Hamlet.
Grade: N/A

Crunelle-Vanrigh, Anny. "'Too Much in the (Black) Sun':

Hamlet's First Soliloquy, A Kristevan View." 1997. Online.
Topic:How Hamlet's first soliloquy (plus the entire play of Hamlet and all drama ever written) illustrate Julia Kristeva's psychological theories.
Grade: F

Eliot, T. S. "Hamlet and His Problems." 1921. Online.

Topic: Hamlet as an "artistic failure."
Grade: F

Empson, William. "Hamlet When New." 1953.

Topics: Hamlet's delay, the mystery of Hamlet's character.
Grade: D

Foster, Donald. "A Romance of Electronic Scholarship;

with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Part 1: The Words." 1998. Online.
Topics: The uses of word search, Shakespeare's text, Shakespeare's word associations.
Grade: N/A

Garber, Marjorie. "Hamlet: giving up the ghost." 1987.

Topic: Postmodern, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, new-historicist, deconstructionist literary theory.
Grade: F

Granville-Barker, Harley. Preface to Hamlet. 1946.

Topic: Dramatic structure, character.
Grade: B+

Knight, G. Wilson. "The Embassy of Death: An Essay on Hamlet." 1930.

Topics: Claudius as "wise and considerate"; Hamlet as "a living death in the midst of life."
Grade: C

Levin, Harry. The Question of Hamlet. 1959.

Topics: Figures of speech, ambiguity, this and that.
Grade: D

Mack, Maynard. "The World of Hamlet." 1952.

Topics: Mysteries, false appearances, human frailty, and Hamlet's change of attitude in the last act.
Grade: A

McGee, Arthur The Elizabethan Hamlet. 1987.

Topic: The influence of Elizabethan religious views on Shakespeare's audience.
Grade: F

Rabkin, Norman. Shakespeare and the Common Understanding. 1967.

Topics: The Ghost, ambiguity and paradox.
Grade: C

Ribner, Irving. Patterns in Shakesperian Tragedy. 1960.

Topic: Hamlet as Christian allegory.
Grade: C

Rosenbaum, Ron. "Shakespeare in Rewrite." 2002.

Topic: The texts of Hamlet.
Grade: A

Triggs, Jeffery Alan. "A Mirror for Mankind: The Pose of Hamlet with the Skull of Yorick." 1990. Online.

Topic: The "vanitas or memento mori motif" in art and poetry of Shakespeare's time and ours.
Grade: N/A

Whitaker, Virgil K. The Mirror up to Nature: The Technique of Shakespeare's Tragedies. 1965.

Topic: The deficiencies of Hamlet as Christian philosophy.
Grade: D

Wilson, J. Dover. What Happens in Hamlet. 1935.

Topic: Answers to questions arising from close study of the text.
Grade: C

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