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Hamlet Studies (Vols. I-XXV, 1979-2003)

Hamlet Studies April 1979, Vol. 1.1

Kernan, Alvin B. “Politics and Theatre in ‘Hamlet.’” Hamlet Studies 1.1. (1979): 1-12.

Smith, Gordon Ross. “Hamlet: The Transitional Play Between Shakespeare's Two Major Dramatic Methods.” Hamlet Studies. 1.1. (1979): 13-22.

Fleissner, Robert F. “Subjectivity as an Occupational Hazard of ‘Hamlet Ghost’ Critics.” Hamlet Studies 1.1. (1979): 23-34.

Sjögren, Gunnar. “Producing the First Quarto of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 1.1. (1979): 35-44.

Desai, R.W. “‘There Struts Hamlet’: Yeats and the Hamlet Mask.” Hamlet Studies 1.1. (1979): 45-50.


Hamlet Studies October 1979, Vol. 1.2

Boose, Lynda E. “The Fashionable Poloniuses.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1979): 67-78.

Crusius, Timothy W. “Hamlet and Audience Response.” Hamlet Studies 2.1 (1979): 79-100.

Rossky, William. “Hamlet as Jeremiah.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1979): 101-108.

Sahel, Pierre. “The Cease of Majesty in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1979): 109-117.

Kliman, Bernice W. “Kozintsev's Hamlet, a Flawed Masterpiece.” Hamlet Studies 2.1 (1979): 117-128.


Hamlet Studies 2.1 1980

Parkinson, R.N. “Now Cracks a Noble Heart.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1980): 1-12.

Kaul, Mythili. “Hamlet and Polonius.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1980): 13-24.

Livingston, Howard. “Hamlet, Ernest Jones, and the Critics.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1980): 25-34.

Tobin, J.J.M. “Nashe and Hamlet, Yet Again. Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1980): 35-46.

Witt, Robert W. “Reason is Not Enough: Hamlet's Recognition.” Hamlet Studies 2.1. (1980): 47-58.


Hamlet Studies 2.2, Winter 1980

Forker, Charles R. “Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and Limits of Expressibility.” Hamlet Studies 2.2. (1980): 1-33.

Paolucci, Anne. “The Expressionist Redemption of the Absurd: Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pirandello's Enrico IV.” Hamlet Studies 2.2. (1980): 34-41.

Pendleton, Thomas A. “Revenger's and Rivals: Antonio's Revenge and Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 2.2. (1980): 42-61.


Hamlet Studies 3.1, Summer 1981

Southall, Raymond. “The Hamlet Syndrome.” Hamlet Studies 3.1. (1981): 3-12.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. “Hamlet, Duplessis-Mornay, and the ‘Irenic’ Vision.” Hamlet Studies 3.1. (1981): 13-31.

Donawerth, Jane L. “The Language of Voice, Expression and Gesture in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 3.1 (1981): 32-47.


Hamlet Studies 3.2, Winter, 1981

Doebler, Bettie Anne. “Hamlet: A Grave Scene and its Audience.” Hamlet Studies. 3.2 (1981): 68-82.

Andrews, Michael Cameron. “Hamlet and the Satisfactions of Revenge.” Hamlet Studies. 3.2 (1981): 83-102.

Lee-Riffe, Nancy M. “What Fortinbras and Laertes Tell About Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 3.2 (1981): 103-109.


Hamlet Studies 4.1-4.2, Winter and Summer, 1982

Macintyre, Jean. “Hamlet and the Comic Heroine.” Hamlet Studies. 4.1-4.2 (1982): 6-18.

Sternlicht, Stanford. “Hamlet—the Actor as Prince.” Hamlet Studies. 4.1-4.2 (1982): 19-32.

Ronan, Clifford J. “Homo Multiplex and the ‘Man’ Equivocation in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 4.1-4.2 (1982): 33-53.

Fleming, Keith. “Hamlet and Oedipus Today: Jones and Lacan.” Hamlet Studies. 4.1-4.2 (1982): 54-71.

Graves, Michael. “Hamlet as a Fool.” Hamlet Studies. 4.1-4.2 (1982): 72-88.


Hamlet Studies 5.1-5.2, Winter and Summer, 1983

Rabey, David Ian. “Pay, Satire, Self-Definition and Individuation in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 6-26.

Gomez, Christine. “Hamlet—An Early Existential Outsider?” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 27-39.

Hertzbach, Janet S. “Hamlet and the Integrity of Majesty.” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 40-51.

Tobin, J.J.M. “More Elements From Nash.” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 52-58.

McDonald, Russ. “Osric.” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 59-65.

Desai, R.W. “Hamlet's Soliloquies and Shakespeare's Audience.” Hamlet Studies. 5.1-5.2 (1983): 66-74.


Hamlet Studies 6.1-6.2, Winter and Summer, 1984

Landis, Joan Hutton. “Shakespeare's Poland.” Hamlet Studies. 6.1-6.2 (1984): 8-17.

Petronella, Vincent F. “Hamlet: The International Theme.” Hamlet Studies. 6.1-6.2 (1984): 18-22.

Fleissner, R.F. “Princeps Arte Ambulandi: The Pace of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 6.1-6.2 (1984): 23-29.

Wilson, Robert R. “Narratives, Narrators, Narratees in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 6.1-6.2 (1984): 30-40.

Nath, Prem. “Hamlet in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1750: From John Dennis to Arthur Murphy.” Hamlet Studies 6.1-6.2 (1984): 30-67.


Hamlet Studies 7.1-7.2, Winter and Summer, 1985

White, R.S. “The Spirit of Yorick, Or the Tragic Sense of Humor in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 7.1-7.2 (1985): 9-26.

Miles, Vernon Garth. “Hamlet's Search for Philosophic Integration: A Twentieth Century View.” Hamlet Studies 7.1-7.2 (1985): 27-37.

Bernthal, Craig A. “‘Self’ Examination and Readiness in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 7.1-7.2 (1985): 38-51.

Gaudet, Paul. “‘He is justly served’: The Ordering of Experience in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 7.1-7.2 (1985): 52-68.


Hamlet Studies 8.1-8.2, Winter and Summer, 1986

Imhof, Rudiger. “Fortinbras Ante Portas: The Role and Significance in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 8.1-8.2 (1986): 8-29.

Sharma, Ghanshiam. “The Function of Horatio in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 8.1-8.2 (1986): 30-39.

Mahon, John W. “Providential Visitations in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies. 8.1-8.2 (1986): 40-51.

Homchaudhuri, S. “Hamlet and Samson Agonistes.” Hamlet Studies 8.1-8.2 (1986): 52-64.

Kawachi, Yoshiko. “Hamlet in Japan—From Drama to Novel.” Hamlet Studies 8.1-8.2 (1986): 65-76.


Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2, Winter and Summer, 1987

Styan, J.L. “On Seeing Hamlet in Performance.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 9-20.

Aggeler, Geoffrey. “Hamlet and the Stoic Stage.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 21-33.

Johnson, Barbara A. “The Fabric of the Universe Rent: Hamlet as an Inversion of The Courtier.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 34-52.

Hayton, Alison G. “‘The King of my Father?’: Paternity in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 53-64.

Walsh, Martin W. “‘This same skull, Sir..’: Layers of Meaning and Tradition in Shakespeare's Most Famous Prop.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 65-77.

Cohen, Michael. “‘To what base uses we may return’: Class and Morality in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 9.1-9.2 (1987): 78-85.


Hamlet Studies 10.1-10.2, Winter and Summer, 1988

Sams, Eric. “Taboo, or not Taboo? The Text, Dating and Authorship of Hamlet, 1589-1623.” Hamlet Studies 10.1-10.2 (1988): 12-46.

Morgan, David C.H. “‘When mercy seasons justice’: How and (Why) Hamlet Does Not Kill Claudius.” Hamlet Studies 10.1-10.2 (1988): 47-78.

Romm, Joseph J. “Why Hamlet Dies.” Hamlet Studies 10.1-10.2 (1988): 79-94.

Preussner, Arnold W. “Waiting in Hamlet and Twelfth Night.” Hamlet Studies 10.1-10.2 (1988): 95-103.


Hamlet Studies 11.1-11.2, Winter and Summer, 1989

Berkeley, David Shelley. “Claudius Villein King of Denmark.” Hamlet Studies 11.1-11.2 (1989): 9-21.

Diffey, Carole T. “‘Such large discourse’: the Role of ‘Godlike reason’ in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 11.1-11.2 (1989):22-33.

Billigheimer, Rachel V. “Diversity in the Hamlets of the Eighteenth-Century Stage in England, France and Germany.” Hamlet Studies 11.1-11.2 (1989): 34-48.

Pollard, David L. “Belatedness in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 11.1-11.2 (1989): 49-59.


Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2, Winter and Summer, 1990

Sheidley, William E. “Hamlet as a Vision of Renewal.” Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2 (1990): 8-27.

Beck, Jeffery P. “Pulled From the Melodious Lay: ‘A World Elsewhere’ and the Songs of As You Like It in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2 (1990): 28-50.

Sorenson, Peter J. “Hamlet's Ghost and the Dramatic Function of Shakespeare's Ambiguous ‘Apparitions.’” Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2 (1990): 51-58.

Thatcher, David. “The Killing of Polonius.” Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2 (1990): 59-74.

Hunter, Glen D. “Modern Recordings of Hamlet in English.” Hamlet Studies 12.1-12.2 (1990): 75-93.


Hamlet Studies 13.1-13.2, Winter and Summer, 1991

Jenkins, Harold. “‘To be, or not to be’: Hamlet's Dilemma.” Hamlet Studies 13.1-13.2 (1991): 8-24.

Gorfain, Phyllis. “Toward a Theory of Play and the Carnivalesque in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 13.1-13.2 (1991): 25-49.

Dollerup, Cay. “‘Filters’ in Our Understandings of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 13.1-13.2 (1991): 50-63.

Burks, Zachary A. “‘My Soul's Idol’: Hamlet's Love for Ophelia.” Hamlet Studies 13.1-13.2 (1991): 64-72.

Philip, Ranjini. “The Shattered Glass: The Story of (O)phelia.” Hamlet Studies 13.1- 13.2 (1991): 73- 84.


Hamlet Studies 14.1-14.2, Winter and Summer, 1992

Partee, Henry Morriss. “Hamlet and the Persistance of Comedy.” Hamlet Studies 14.1-14.2 (1992): 9-18.

Wright, Eugene P. “Hamlet: From Physics to Metaphysics.” Hamlet Studies 14.1-14.2 (1992): 19-31.

Pessoni, Michele. “‘Let in the Maid, That Out a Maid Never Departed More’: The Initiation of Ophelia: Hamlet's Kore Figure.” Hamlet Studies 14.1-14.2 (1992): 32-41.

Fleissner, R.F. “The Dilatory Prince and the Striving Soul Searcher: The Hamlet-Faust-Complex.” Hamlet Studies 14.1-14.2 (1992): 42-58.


Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2, Winter and Summer, 1993

Andres, James R. “The Vulgar and the Polite: Dialogue in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1993): 8-22.

Champion, Larry S. “‘A Spriage to Catch Woodcocks’: Proverbs, Characterization, and Political Idealization in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1993): 23-39.

York, Neil L. “Hamlet as American Revolutionary.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1992): 40-53.

Sheidley, William E. “Making Hamlet Pirouette: Louis Henry's Hamlet Pantomime Tragique of 1816.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1993): 54-70.

—— “Hamlet, Tragic Pantomime in Three Acts, A Ballet Libretto by Louis Henry, Translated from French by William E Sheidley.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1993): 54-70.

Banerjee, A. “A Modern Hamlet: Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger.” Hamlet Studies 15.1-15.2 (1993): 81-92.


Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2, Winter and Summer, 1994

Das, Subimal. “The Youth at Tumbru (poem).” Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2 (1994): 9.

Watterson, William Collins. “Hamlet's Lost Father.” Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2 (1994): 10-23.

Arnett, David B. “What Makes Hamlet Run? Framing Cognition Discursively.” Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2 (1994): 24-41.

Hardy, John. “Hamlet's ‘Modesty of Nature.’” Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2 (1994): 42-56.

Halverson, John. “The Importance of Horatio.” Hamlet Studies 16.1-16.2 (1994): 57-70.


Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2, Winter and Summer, 1995

Dorn, Alfred. “Listen Laertes (poem).” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 9.

Bugliani, Francesca. “‘In the mind to suffer’: Hamlet's Soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be.’” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 10-42.

Rees-Mogg, Lord. “The Politics of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 43-53.

Doubt, Keith. “Hamlet and Friendship.” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 54-62.

Vanita, Ruth. “The Woman Hater as Beaumont and Fletcher's Reading of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 63-77.

Gilman, Todd S. “‘Why seems it so particular with thee?’ Hamlet among the Revisionists.” Hamlet Studies 17.1-17.2 (1995): 78-93.


Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2, Winter and Summer, 1996

Clary, Frank Nicholas. “‘The very cunning of the scene’: Hamlet's Divination and the King's Occulted Guilt.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 7-28.

Milne, Joseph. “Hamlet: The Conflict Between Fate and Grace.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 29-48.

Lal, Sikandar. “Secular Tragedy—The Case of Claudius.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 49-64.

Sanchez, Reuben. “‘Thou com'st in such a questionable shape’: Interpreting the Textual and Contextual Ghost in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 65-84.

Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel. “Muder and Kingship: Biblical Paradigms in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 85-93.

Bains, Y.S. “Loose Ends and Inconsistencies in the First Quarto of Shakespeare's Hamlet?” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 84-93.

Bigliazzi, Silvia. “‘The time is out of joint’: Hamlet on Screen and the Crystal Image.” Hamlet Studies 18.1-18.2 (1996): 105-125.


Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2, Winter and Summer, 1997

Sprinchorn, Evert. “Hamlet's ‘Dram of Eale.’” Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2 (1997): 7-19.

Harris, John Arthur. “Ophelia's ‘Nothing’: It is the False Steward that Stole His Master's Daughter.” Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2 (1997): 20-46.

Reschke, Mark. “Historicizing Homophobia: Hamlet and the Anti-theatrical Tracts.” Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2 (1997): 47-63.

Dickson, Lisa. “The Hermeneutics of Error: Reading and the First Witness in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2 (1997): 64-77.

Lusardi, James P. “Hamlet on the Postmodernist Stage” The Revisionings of Bergman and Wagda.” Hamlet Studies 19.1-19.2 (1997): 64-77.


Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2, Summer and Winter, 1998

Summers, David. “‘—the proverb is something musty’: The Commonplace and Epistemic Crisis in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2 (1998): 9-34.

Planinc, Zdravko. “‘It begins with Pyrrhus’ (2.2.451): The Political Philosophy of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2 (1998): 35-49.

Witt, Robert W. “The Duel in Hamlet as Play-within.” Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2 (1998): 50-62.

Kozikowski, Stanislaus J. “The Three Medieval Plots of Hamlet: Psychomachia, Ars Moriendi, Memento Mori.” Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2 (1998): 63-70.

Philip, Ranjini. “Rereading Hamlet in a Multicultural Context.” Hamlet Studies 20.1-20.2 (1998): 71-79.


Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2, Summer and Winter, 1999

Desai, R.W. “Hamlet Studies after Two Decades in India—A Retrospective Analysis.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 9-19.

Aasand, Hardin and Frank Nicholas Clary. “Hamlet and the Mirror up to History: Allegory, Analogue and Allusion.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 20-54.

David, Lloyd. “‘To thine own self be true’: Identity and Desire from Plato to Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 55-76.

Beliles, David Buck. “‘I am myself indifferent honest’: Hamlet as Ophelia's Seducer.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 77-87.

Kelley, Charles Greg. “‘Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold’: Legend Dynamics in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 89-113.

Hopkins, Lisa. “What's Heracles to Hamlet? The Emblematic Garden in The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 21.1-21.2 (1999): 114-143.


Hamlet Studies 22, 2000

Chawla, Nishi. “Upon Meeting with Hamlet's Kronborg.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 7-9.

Bains, Y.S. “Biography, Bibliography, and the Making of Shakespeare's Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 10-25.

Edmondson, Paul M. “‘A sad story tolde’: Playing Horatio in Q1 Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 26-39.

Moore, Jeanie Grant. “‘In my mind's eye’: Postmodern (Re)visions of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 40-76.

Al-Shetawi, Mahmoud F. “Hamlet in Arabic.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 77-109.

Naikar, Basavaraj. “Raktaksi: An Example of a Cultural Adaptation of Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 22 (2000): 110-123.


Hamlet Studies 23, 2001

Campbell, Dowling G. “The Double Dichotomy and Paradox of Virtue in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 13-49.

Gooch, Bryan N.S. “Hamlet as Hero: The Necessity of Virtue.” Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 50-58.

Voss, Paul J. “To Prey or Not to Prey: Prayer and Punning in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 59-74.

Wagner, Joseph B. “Hamlet Rewriting Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 75-92.

Kawachi, Yoshiko. “Translating Hamlet into Japanese.” Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 93-102.


Hamlet Studies 24, 2002

Robinson, John V. “Hamlet's Evil Ale: Hamlet 1.4.36-38.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 10-25.

Fernandez, Enrique. “Bare-Bones Humour in Hamlet (5.1) and Don Quixote (1, 19).” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 26-38.

Ashley, Leonard R.N. “The Observed of all Observers: Hamlet on the Stage.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 39-55.

Trivedi, Poonam. “‘Play[ing]'s the thing’: Hamlet on the Indian Stage.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 56-80.

Verma, Rajiva. “Hamlet on the Hindi Stage.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 81-93.

Vernede, R.E. “Hamlet at a Bengal Fair.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 94-107.


Hamlet Studies 25, 2003

Roston, Murray. “Hamlet and Suicide.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 16-40.

Baumlin, James S. “Hamlet the Sailor.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 41-66.

Kanelos, Peter. “Hamlet and the Art of Memory.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 67-80.

Bentley, Greg. “Carousing Gertrude.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 81-122.

Gooch, Bryan N.S. “Hamlet and the Concept of Stability.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 123-132.

Thorne, Barry. “‘Stand and unfold yourself’: Metaphysical Satisfactions in Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 133-142.

Dahiya, Hema. “Delay as Difference in Hamlet: an Ethical View.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 143-155.

Clary Jr, Frank Nicholas. “Charles Gildon's Editorial Apparatus and Nicholas Rowe's Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 156-174.

Fleissner, R.F. “Ophelia as Expecting, Not Merely Expectant: Margaret Anticipated.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 175-188.

Janowitz. Henry D. “‘Master Eustace’ and Gertrude and Claudius: Henry James and John Updike Rewrite Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 189-199.

Sheidley, William E. “Anti-Hamlets: Motive and Meaning in a Radical Parodic Mode.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 200-217.

Jaidka, Manju and Natasha W. Vashisht. “Of Wiglerus, Feng, Et. Al: Some Variations on the Hamlet Story.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 218-233.

Sterling, Eric. “Teaching Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies 24 (2003): 234-246.