Shakespeare, William Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Arden edn., ed. Harold Jenkins (London and New York Methuen, 1982). All citations to the play refer to this edition. 

On the claim that the top of [Shakespeare s] Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet," see Nicholas Rowe, Account, in William Shakespeare, Works, ed. Rowe (London, 1709), I. xii-xiii, quoted in Samuel Schoen-baum, William Shakespeare A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1977), 201. 

Does [Sigmund Freud s theory of human sexuality] explain [the internal conflict experienced by William Shakespeare s character, Hamlet] ... 

In William Shakespeare s time, some believed that poisons dropped in one s ear were as lethal as the ingested ones. This seems to be true in the case of Hamlet s father. In modern medical treatment, several drugs are applied direcdy to the inner ear for the treatment of ear disorders. 

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, edited by Harold Jenkins (London Methuen, 1982), 4.5.123. All further quotations from the play will be taken from this edition and reference will be given in the text. 

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, edited by Harold Jenkins (London Methuen, 1980), pp. 531 and 533. 

Prefaces to the previous two editions have had quotations from the famous mass spectrometrist Mao Tse-Tung. As suggested by Drs. Roy W. King and Kain Sze Kwok, William Shakespeare also deserves citation, saying in Hamlet Witness this army, of such mass and charge . Perhaps he anticipated the new co-author s revisions in Chapter 8 with his words in Coriolanus Get you home, you fragments . 

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