...Julia Reinhard Lupton “Hamlet” without Hamlet . By Margreta de Grazia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 267 pp. Reviews Hamlet’s Heirs: Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium. By Linda Charnes. New York: Routledge, 2006. xi + 152 pp. The field...

...). Her book Unmodernizing Shakespeare is forthcoming. MLQ 62.4 04 de Grazia 10/24/01 5:52 PM Page 355 Hamlet before Its Time Margreta de Grazia o work in the English literary canon has been so closely identified Nwith the beginning...

...Margreta de Grazia Hamlet in Purgatory . By Stephen Greenblatt. Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 2001. xii + 322 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xv...

... and illuminating. H. T. SWEDENBERG,JR. University of California, Los Angeles Prefaces to Shakespeare. Volume I: Hamlet, King Lear, The Mer- chant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline. By HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER.Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University...

...Joshua Scodel Hamlet and its protagonist place liberty at their center of vision by exploring its diverse senses. Freedom in Hamlet is of different kinds, always limited and hard to obtain or keep. The play's other characters serve as clarifying foils to Hamlet himself, who as the closely watched...

...J. L. Simmons Epigraphs from William Roper’s “Life of Sir Thomas More” represent rituals of familial blessing in transition from the feudal to the early modern. They exemplify Shakespeare’s complex employment of the ritual in Hamlet and throughout his plays from the farcical to the serene...

...Donald L. Guss Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Donald L. Guss the onset of modern times, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Milton’s Samson stage exemplary crises of selfhood. They make clear that to “comply”with “the tune of the time” is obscene, and “outward”man...

...). History; or, The Difference between Scott’s Hamlet and Goethe’s Alexander Welsh oethe’s adoption of Hamlet for his own purposes in WiZheZm Meis- Gters Lehrjahre is well known. The presence of Shakespeare’s play in the novel can scarcely be missed, and the interpretation of Hamlet’s...

...Alan Warren Friedman Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 HAMLET THE UNREADY By ALANWARREN FRIEDMAN In scene ii of act V, an at last resigned Hamlet tells a reluctant Hora- tio that they have now arrived at the beginning...

...By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 HAMLET THE NAME OF ACTION By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD Off the coast of Wales to the northwest of Caernarvonshire is the is- land of Anglesey...

... the sea and the sober men of science, the mathematicians, astronomers, geographers, and car- tographers, that fair business was done, for here the more one gave the more one got. EDWARDGODFREY Cox University of Washington The Character of Hamlet...

...Mark L. Caldwell Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 HAMLET AND THE SENSES By MARKL. CALDWELL Transported in James’s story to the Great Good Place, George Dane and a companion discuss its elusive gemutlichkeit, the mysterious power...

... be praised. DANIELC;. C.~I,DEK Unive rs it? $ Callfom ia, 1, os A ngeles 7bRe and No/ To Be: Negation and Metadrnma in “Hamlet.”By JAMES L. CAIBEK- WOOD. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. xvi + 222 pp. $29.50, cloth; $13.50...

...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THEME AND CHARACTER IN HAMLET By BRENTSSTIRLING As the motion picture Hamlet opens, a disembodied voice is heard to say, “This is a play about a man who could not make up his mind...

...René Taupin Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 THE MYTH OF HAMLET IN FRANCE IN MALLARMC’S GENERATION By RENSTAUPIN MallarmC justifies our speaking of the myth of Hamlet in one sen- tence : “But the latent prince...

... notes, to the many aspects of Renaissance thought, The Renaissance Philosophy of Ma% is a welcome tool for the use of the student of Renaissance literature. HERBERTWEISINCER Michigan State Colkge A Hidory of Hamlet Criticism, 1601-1821...

...Raphaël Ingelbien; Benedicte Seynhaeve This essay explores the intertextual use of Hamlet in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and Germaine de Staël's Corinne to shed new light on these writers' interventions in European Romantic politics. Both Owenson and Staël associated their male protagonists...

...Richard Halpern Hamlet's Heirs: Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium . By Linda Charnes. New York: Routledge, 2006. xi + 152 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Richard Halpern is professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent book is Norman...

...George L. Barnett Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY By GE~RGEL. BARNETT Parallels to the thought and expression of lines in Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” soliloquy have been noted in the work of many...

...Freddie Rokem This short article, commenting on the other articles in this issue of MLQ , is an attempt to “read” academic discourses through the prism of a literary-dramatic work: Shakespeare's Hamlet . © 2009 by University of Washington 2009 Freddie Rokem is Emanuel Herzikowitz...