Hamlet in purgatory / by Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.…”
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Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama /

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Early modern Catholicism : an anthology of primary sources / by Miola, Robert S.

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Shakespeare the renaissance humanist : moral philosophy and his plays / by Raspa, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare, the Critics, and Humanism -- Metaphysics as the Way Things Are: King John and Hamlet -- The Wisdom of King Lear -- Macbeth's Imagination as Fatal Flaw -- Beauty and Misfortune in Romeo and Juliet -- Of Animals and Men: The Tempest.…”

Shakespeare's world : the tragedies : a historical exploration of literature / by King, Douglas J. 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, ca. 1597) -- Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare, ca. 1599) -- Hamlet (William Shakespeare, ca. 1600) -- Macbeth (William Shakespeare, 1606).…”
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Shakespeare and early modern political thought /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's properties / David Armitage -- The active and contemplative lives in Shakespeare's plays / Cathy Curtis -- Shakespeare and the ethics of authority / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare and the politics of superstition / Susan James --Counsel, succession and the politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Cathy Shrank -- Educating Hamlet and Prince Hal / Aysha Pollnitz -- The corruption of Hamlet / Andrew Fitzmaurice -- Unfolding 'the properties of government': the case of Measure for measure and the history of political thought / Conal Condren -- Shakespeare and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII / Jennifer Richards -- Putting the city into Shakespeare's city comedy / Phil Withington -- Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar / David Colclough -- Political rhetoric and citizenship in Coriolanus / Markku Peltonen -- Shakespeare and the best state of a commonwealth / Eric Nelson Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture / Quentin Skinner.…”
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Christian humanism in Shakespeare : a study in religion and literature / by Oser, Lee, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thinking of Shakespeare as a Christian -- Theological comedy in A midsummer night's dream -- Moral figures in The merchant of Venice -- The Henriad : a skeptical Christian writes history -- Free will in Hamlet? -- On not understanding King Lear's hidden God -- Conclusion: Shakespeare and the radical middle.…”
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Shakespeare & the outer mystery / by West, Robert Hunter

Table of Contents: “…The questions -- The evidence -- Outerness & the supernatural -- King Hamlet's ambiguous ghost --Night's black agents in "Macbeth" -- Ceremonial magic in "The Tempest" -- Iago & the mytery of iniquity -- Othello and damnation -- The Christianness of "Othello" & "King Lear" -- Sex, death & pessimism in "King Lear" -- In the great hand of God.…”
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Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England : spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama / by Poole, Kristen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Prologue: Setting -- and unsettling -- the stage; Introduction: The space of the supernatural; Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest.…”
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Shakespeare's feminine endings : disfiguring death in the tragedies / by Berry, Philippa, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Disfigured endings: sexual matters and Shakespeare's ars moriendi -- Double dying and other tragic inversions (Romeo and Juliet) -- Echoic language and tragic identity (Hamlet) -- Disclosing the feminine eye of death: tragedy and seeing in the dark (Othello) -- Fortune's fools: revolutions of time, fate and sovereignty (Macbeth) -- Cordelia's bond and Britannia's missing middle (King Lear).…”
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Supernatural environments in Shakespeare's England : spaces of demonism, divinity, and drama / by Poole, Kristen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Prologue: Setting -- and unsettling -- the stage; Introduction: The space of the supernatural; Chapter 1 The devil's in the archive: Ovidian physics and Doctor Faustus; Chapter 2 Scene at the deathbed: Ars moriendi, Othello, and envisioning the supernatural; Chapter 3 When hell freezes over: The fabulous Mount Hecla and Hamlet's infernal geography; Chapter 4 Metamorphic cosmologies: The world according to Calvin, Hooker, and Macbeth; Chapter 5 Divine geometry in a geodetic age: Surveying, God, and The Tempest.…”
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Shakespeare and the idea of Western civilization / by Young, R. V., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Learning from Shakespeare, poet of Western civilization -- Shakespeare on love (and marriage) -- Juliet's nominalism and the failure of love -- The racial "other" in The merchant of Venice and Othello -- Shakespeare's history plays and the Erasmian Christian prince -- Freedom and tyranny in Julius Caesar and Hamlet -- "Light thickens" : freedom and tyranny in Macbeth -- Hope and despair in King Lear : the gospel and the crisis of natural law -- The tempest in the academic teapot.…”
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Shakespeare and the soliloquy in early modern English drama /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Roman Soliloquy; Chapter 2 Tudor Transformations; Chapter 3 Doubtful Battle: Marlowe's Soliloquies; Chapter 4 Shakespeare and the Female Voice in Soliloquy; Chapter 5 Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformity and the Audience; Chapter 6 Giving Voice to History in Shakespeare; Chapter 7 Hamlet and Of Truth: Humanism and the Disingenuous Soliloquy; Chapter 8 Choosing between Shame and Guilt: Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, and King Lear…”
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Mermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England / by Pedersen, Tara E.

Table of Contents: “…: the mermaid and the map in Shakespeare's Hamlet.…”
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Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture / by Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Divisions in the discourses of distraction -- Initiating madness onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy -- Reading the language of distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear -- Diagnosing women's melancholy: case histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen -- Destablizing lovesickness, gender, and sexuality: Twelfth Night and As You Like It -- Confining madmen and transgressing boundaries: The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night -- Rethinking confinement in Early Modern England: The place of bedlam in history and drama -- Epilogue: Then and now.…”
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Mortal thoughts : religion, secularity & identity in Shakespeare and early modern culture / by Cummings, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Secularization & Identity; 1 The Mortal Self; 2 The Reformed Conscience; 3 The Writer as Martyr; 4 Public Oaths & Private Selves; 5 Soliloquy & Secularization; 6 Hamlet's Luck; 7 Freedom, Suicide, & Selfhood; 8 Soft Selves: Adam, Eve, & the Art of Embodiment; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z…”
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Spectacular performances;essays on theatre, imagery, books, and selves in e.

Table of Contents: “…The case for Comus; 7. Completing Hamlet; Part III: Books; 8. Open secrets; 9. Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations; 10. …”
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Shakespeare's theory of drama / by Kiernan, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet -- 6. 'Thy registers and thee I both defy': history challenged. …”
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Shakespeare's Stationers : Studies in Cultural Bibliography /

Table of Contents: “…." : Zachariah Pasfield and the licensing of playbooks / William Proctor Williams -- Nicholas Ling's republican Hamlet (1603) / Kirk Melnikoff -- Shakespeare the stationer / Douglas Bruster -- Edward Blount, the Herberts, and the first folio / Sonia Massai -- John Norton and the politics of Shakespeare's history plays in Caroline England / Alan B. …”
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Stages of madness : sin, sickness, and Seneca in Shakespearean drama / by Power, Andrew J., 1977-