Illustrations
Introduction
1. Method and Social Geography
FROM:
Niccol6 Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
2. Theatre and Tragedy
FROM:
Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses. Contayning
a Discoverie, or briefe Summarie of such Notable
Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many
Christian Countreyes of the Worlde (1583)
An official petition submitted by the Lord Mayor and
the Aldermen of the City of London to Queen
Elizabeths Privy Council 28 July 1597
Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penilesse his supplication to
the Diuell (1592)
3. Literary Analysis: Hamlets Options
4. Man, Melancholy, and Suicide
5. Enter Ghost…… Exit Ghost
FROM:
Reginald of Piperno, Supplementum to Aquinass
Summa Theologica, Question LXIX (c. 1274)
Ordinances of the Gild of the Palmers (1284)
Noel Taillepied, A Treatise of Ghosts, Being the
Psichologie,~ or Treatise upon Apparitions and
Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Figures,
Strange Prodigies, and of Other Miracles and
Marvels (1588)
Pierre la Primaudaye, The French Academie (1594)
The Geneva Bible, Deuteronomie XVII: 10-12 and
Iohn IIII:1 (1560)
Ludwig [Lewes] Lavater, Of ghostes and spirites,
walking at nyght, And of straunge noyses, crackes,
and sundrie forewarnings (1570)
James vI of Scotland, The Thirde Booke of
Daemonologie (1597)
Pierre le Loyer, IIII Livres des spectres ou
apparitions (1586)
Euripides, Hecabe (425 B.C.)
Seneca, Troades (A.D. 65)
Jasper Heywoods Troas, a translation of Senecas
Troades (1559)
6. Revenge (,) the Crime
FROM:
Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass being the
Metamorphoses (c. A.D. 150)
The Hystorie of Hamblet (1608)
Sir William Segar, The Book of Honor and Armes
(1590)
Stephen Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure (1509)
Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune (1596)
Sir John Harrington, "Breefe Notes and
Rembraunces," Nugae Antiquae (c. 1600-1601)
7. Antic Dispositions: The Hero as Fool
FROM:
The Geneva Bible, The First Boke of Samuel
XXI:10-15; XXII:I (1560)
The Roman History written in Latine by Titus Livius
[Livy], II, lvi-lix (A.D. 17)
The Hystorie of Hamblet (1608)
8. Gertrude, Thy Name Is Woman
FROM:
Sir William Segar, Honor Military and Civill (1602)
Durham Ecclesiastical Court Records (c. 1560)
The Geneva Bible, The Third Boke of Moses, called
Leuiticus XVIII:6, 16; XX:21 (1560)
Thomas Becon, "Of the Office of Widows,"
Catechism (1564)
An Homily on the State of Matrimony (1563)
John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against
the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558)
Jane Anger her Protection for Women (1589)
9. Over Ophelias Dead Body
FROM:
Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy,
Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modem England(1990)
Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of
Stratford-upon-Avon, Vol. III (1577-1586)
Carolus Musitanus, De Morbis Mulierum (1709)
Conclusion
Index
Shakespeares Hamlet, regarded by many as "the worlds most famous play by the worlds most famous writer," is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and cultural issues related to the play. In an approach unique for this series, Corum guides the reader through a literary analysis of Hamlets options. He examines the popular theatres of the day in which Shakespeare and his company first produced Hamlet and discusses the genre of tragedy in which it is written. Through judicious selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlets melancholy, the ghost of Hamlets father, the theme of revenge, and Hamlets feigned madness. The chapters contain a variety of materials, many of which are not readily available elsewhere： essays, poems, histories, treatises, official documents, stories, religious tracts, homilies, memoirs, engravings, village records, and fifteen illustrations.
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