Advanced Module B

A Critical Study of Text

Text: Hamlet

Some resources:

• Wikipedia on Hamlet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

• RSC educational resources: http://www.rsc.org.uk/content/3101.aspx

• The Globe Theatre website: http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/globe-theatre-shakespeare.htm

• Page specialising in links relevant to Hamlet: http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/hamlet.html

• Website devoted to Hamlet (and Shakespeare): http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/plays/Ham.html

• Harley Granville Barker on Hamlet:

http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&id=AGr7H2qrSNQC&dq=Hamlet&printsec=

frontcover&source=web&ots=nqOYuACqS8&sig=CA1f1GvcS-f0MT7SvX3q4AYQARQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result

• Etext version: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1524

• Hamlet as theatre: http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet001.html

• Reading Hamlet: http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9829998/

• Podcasts of the play – Act 4: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/11651

• Teaching notes: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hamlet.html

• Essay on critical readings: https://abarnaby.blog.uvm.edu/ENGS86/Sophie%20Gray%20Hamlet%20essay%20pdf.pdf

• Performance history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_in_performance

• Extensive links: http://www.hamlethaven.com/performance.html

Critical Theory   

• http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bsqFxaZz6AoC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=%22Hamlet%22+critical+theory&source=bl&ots=tMlDwj3GSl&sig=imv1ep9vXxdGHu-m1JPg1Y2u3_s&hl=en&ei=MbriSd2PDKbe6AORjdCGDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct

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·         http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/index.html

Hamlet and critical theory

·       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_approaches_to_Hamlet

·    http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QNmFm4M_RXkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=%

        22Eagleton%22+%22Literary+theory:+An+introduction%22+&ots=Gbu8OeMKys&sig=D8WcVFDhLedJO6LGJ1if4vtWWY8#PPP1,M1

·    http://www.hamlethaven.com/carnival.html

·    http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bsqFxaZz6AoC&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=%22Hamlet%22+critical+theory&source=bl&ots=tMlDwj3GSl&sig=imv1ep9vXxdGHu-m1JPg1Y2u3_s&hl=en&ei=MbriSd2PDKbe6AORjdCGDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct

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·    http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/hamlet.htm

Productions of Hamlet

There aren't any short cuts to watching Hamlet. You see to experience or view a complete production, however there are excerpts on YouTube that may be useful if limited because of quality and brevity.

The soliloquies

• Act 1 Scene 2

Kenneth Branagh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBVmiVkzTM

Laurence Olivier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q0qmjEWEPU

• Act 2 Scene 2

Kenneth Branagh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUfG2ozXbAM

Laurence Olivier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q0qmjEWEPU

• Act 3 Scene 1

Kenneth Branagh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcMbQgCAhY

Derek Jacobi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-elDeJaPWGg

Laurence Olivier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG0vXniDQY

• Act 3 Scene 3 (Claudius' monologue)

• Act 3 Scene 3 (Hamlet

Kevin Kline as Hamlet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JD6gOrARk4

Laurence Oliver as Hamlet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG0vXniDQY

Kevin Kline: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwd98zMxKEg 

Other scenes:

Act 1 Scene 5 - Hamlet and the Ghost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNVS59BF-vo

Act 1 Scene 5 - silent (what? No words!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQJWMC2K-BI

Act 5 Scene 1 - The gravedigger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JXwbQGX-m8

Act 5 Scene 1 - the cartoon version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ej4zNlhpU (Think about what's missing)