Bantam editions. Contains selected annotated bibliography and selections from Shakespeare's sources.
Bookworm Shakespeare. CD-ROM. 1995. Edition with annotations, background and critical information.
Folger Shakespeare. Contains a summary of each scene along with annotations. Selected bibliography.
Moston, Doug. The First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623. NY: Applause, 1995. A facsimile of the first "collected works" of Shakespeare, with the collection supervised after Shakespeare's death by his colleagues John Heminge and Henrie Condell.
Signet Classics. Contains text, essays including sources and theater history. Selected bibliography.
Variorum text. Contains text, sources, notes on critical commentary, notes on editing.
Reference Works
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. deSousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1995. Introduction to critical approaches and scholarly resources, with a section on writing and documenting a term paper.
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Rev. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1973. Essays on major critical opinion, play by play.
Blake, Norman. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. A general introduction to Elizabethan English, giving possible meanings for problematic constructions.
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. NY: Laurel, Dell, 1990. Reference book with entries on plays (scene-by-scene summary, commentary, sources and theatrical history), characters, actors, historical people. For the general reader. Selected bibliography.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1957-1975.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare. NY: William Morrow, 1992. Recent, readable biography of Shakespeare and his times.
Modern Language Association annual bibliography. Now searchable on CD-ROM (under electronic collections at workstations in the library).
Papp, Joseph and Elizabeth Kirkland. Shakespeare Alive! NY: Bantam, 1988. A lively introduction to Elizabethan thought, Shakespeare's sources and theatre and stage history of Shakespearean production.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdry. Rev. ed. NY: Dutton, 1955. A glossary of bawdy words and phrases.
Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen : An International Filmography and Videography. London: Mansell, 1990. Exhaustive list of screen materials, organized by play and date of production. Includes critical reception, names of personnel in production, information about distributors.
Shakespeare Quarterly. Annual bibliography that is exhaustive on articles, productions, editions, translations of Shakespeare. Annotated entries.
Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973. Lists all the words in Shakespeare's works with reference to plays. (6 vol. version gives words play by play and character by character)
Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. New edition. NY: Oxford UP, 1990.
Productions
Bennett, Rodney, director. Television production. 1980. BBC/Time-Life. With Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as Claudius, Claire Bloom as Gertrude, and Lalla Ward as Ophelia.
Bean, Mollie, director. Student production videotape. 1995 for English L315 (Major Plays of Shakespeare) at IUPUI. With Brian Lehigh as Hamlet, Leah Kirkpatrick as Gertrude, Jack Finklea as the Ghost, taped by Alec Cicak.
Branagh, Kenneth, director. Film. 1996. With Branagh as Hamlet, Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Julie Christie as Gertrude, and Kate Winslet as Ophelia.
Murphy, Vincent, director. Videotape of a rehearsal. 1995. Emory University student production of Ophelia-based scenes in Hamlet.
Olivier, Laurence, director and producer. Film. 1948. With Olivier as Hamlet, Basil Sydney as Claudius, Eileen Herlie as Gertrude, and Jean Simmons as Ophelia.
Richardson, Tony, director. Film. Hamlet. 1969. With Nicol Williamson as Hamlet, Anthony Hopkins as Claudius, Judy Parfitt as Gertrude; Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia.
Zeffirelli, Franco, director. Film. Hamlet. 1991. With Mel Gibson as Hamlet, Helena Bonham-Carter as Ophelia, Alan Bates as Claudius and Glenn Close as Gertrude.
Barnet, Sylvan. "Hamlet on Stage and Screen." In Edward Hubler (ed.), The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Updated edition, Signet Classics. NY: Penguin, 1987. Pp. 275-89. Gives a stage history of the play including descriptions of modern productions.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare. Ed. R. A. Foakes. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
Diffey, Carole T. "'Such large Discourse': The Role of 'Godlike Reason' in Hamlet." Hamlet Studies 11.1-2 (1989): 22-23.
French, Marilyn. "Hamlet." Shakepeare's Division of Experience. NY: Summit Books, 1981. Pp. 145-158. Complex characterization. Feminist perspective that incorporates Freudian view. Readable.
Goddard, Harold C. "Hamlet." The Meaning of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1960. II, 331-386. (Excerpted: pp. 369-371.) On the scene in which Hamlet sees Claudius at prayer.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Transl. Thomas Carlyle. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. Romantic view of Hamlet as a sensitive young man.
Hubler, Edward. "A Note on the Sources." In Edward Hubler (ed.), The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Updated edition, Signet Classics. NY: Penguin, 1987. Pp. 183-87.
Jones, Ernest. Hamlet and Oedipus. NY: Norton, 1949. The essay was originally published in 1949 by this follower of Freud. Treats Hamlet as though he were a real person, rather than a literary creation.
Kott, Jan. "Hamlet of the Mid-Century." Shakespeare: Our Contemporary. Trans. Boleslaw Taborski. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1966. Pp. 57-73. Description and comment on political views of Hamlet in Cold War Poland and by Bertolt Brecht during World War II.
Knight, G. Wilson. "An Essay on Hamlet." The Wheel of Fire. Fifth rev. ed. Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1957. Pp. 17-46. Readable. Christian view.
Rosenberg, Marvin. The Masks of Hamlet. Newark, Delaware: U of Delaware P, 1992. Summary based on notable productions of options in reading the lines.
Willson, Robert F., Jr. "Hamlet: Man of the Theatre." Cahiers Elizabethains: Etudes sur la Pre-Renaissance et la Renaissance Anglaises 28 (1985): 37-44. Hamlet as a player, writer, prompter and audience, whose role-playing interferes with his revenge.