Hamlet's Choice : Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies / by Lake, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- From tyranny to resistance -- 3 Beyond paganism and politics -- Providential endings, political means -- Atheism and its opposites -- PART TWO HAMLET -- 4 Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics left in -- The topical matrix: dynastic politics gets personal…”
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Understanding Hamlet : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / by Corum, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Method and Social Geography -- Theatre and Tragedy -- Literary Analysis: Hamlet's Options -- Man, Melancholy, and Suicide -- Enter Ghost ... …”
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Hamlet's Choice : Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies / by Lake, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- From tyranny to resistance -- 3 Beyond paganism and politics -- Providential endings, political means -- Atheism and its opposites -- PART TWO HAMLET -- 4 Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics left in -- The topical matrix: dynastic politics gets personal…”
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The Bible on the Shakespearean stage : cultures of interpretation in Reformation England /

Table of Contents: “…Maimed rites and whirling words in Hamlet /…”
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Reading and rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare / by Mack, Peter, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright's obligations to Montaigne in passages from earlier plays including Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure. Peter Mack argues that rather than continuing the undeterminable quarrel about how early in his career Shakespeare came to Montaigne, we should focus on the similar techniques they apply to shared sources. …”
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Shakespeare and Protestant poetics / by Gleckman, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Predestination, single and double in Christian history -- The Reformation and the revival of double predestination thought -- Double predestination in early English drama -- Double predestination in Shakespearean comedy and tragedy: The merry wives of Windsor and Macbeth -- Double predestination and assurance in Shakespear: Macbeth and Twelfth night -- Conversion in Protestant and Catholic thought in the Reformation -- The Protestant conversion into marraige -- The Shakespearean conversion paradigm: Much ado about nothing -- English Protestant conversion in A midsummer night's dream -- Apostasy in The winter's tale -- The three components of free will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, reason, and deliberative reason -- The free will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation -- Free will and free conscience in Hamlet -- Hamlet and the free will in action -- The player's speech.…”

Reading Shakespeare historically / by Jardine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…: defamation and Desdemona's case -- 'No offence i' th' world': unlawfull marriage in Hamlet -- Cultural confusion and Shakespeare's learned heroines: 'These are old paradoxes' -- Twins and travesties: gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth night -- Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear -- Alien intelligence: Mercantile exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta -- Companionate marriage versus male friendship: Anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama -- Unpicking the tapestry: the scholar of women's history as Penelope among her suitors -- What happens in Hamlet?…”
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Music in Shakespearian tragedy / by Sternfeld, Frederick W. 1914-1994

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Music Examples and Facsimiles; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; I Tradition of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Tragedy; II The Willow Song; III Ophelia's Songs; IV Magic Songs; V Adult Songs and Robert Armin; VI Adult Songs from Hamlet to Othello; VII Blank Verse, Prose and Songs in King Lear; VIII Instrumental Music, Part One: Tamburlaine, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida; IX Instrumental Music Part Two: Stringed Versus Wind Instruments.…”
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Elizabethan publishing and the makings of literary culture / by Melnikoff, Kirk, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Flasket and Linley's The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): reissuing the Elizabethan epyllion -- Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism…”
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Forensic Shakespeare / by Skinner, Quentin

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Marxist Shakespeares /

Table of Contents: “…Marxist Shakespeares; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; General editor's preface; 1 Introduction: Marxism now, Shakespeare now; 2 "Well grubbed, old mole": Marx, Hamlet, and the (un)fixing of representation; 3 An impure history of ghosts: Derrida, Marx, Shakespeare; 4 Looking well to linens: women and cultural production in Othello and Shakespeare's England; 5 "Judicious oeillades": supervising marital property in The Merry Wives of Windsor; 6 The rape of Jesus: Aemilia Lanyer's Lucrece; 7 The undiscovered country: Shakespeare and mercantile geography…”
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Shakespeare and religion / by Shell, Alison

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Shakespeare the man : new decipherings /

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Shakespeare's God : the role of religion in the tragedies / by Morris, Ivor

Table of Contents: “…Othello; 23. King Lear; 24. Hamlet; CONCLUSION; Appendices:; A. Historical process and theological consistency; B. …”
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