General Editor's Note Introduction, Arthur Kinney Part 1: Tudor-Stuart Hamlet 1. E. Pearlman: Shakespeare at Work: The Invention of the Ghost 2. R.A.Foakes: Hamlet's Neglect of Revenge 3. Philip Edwards: The Dryer's Infected Hand: The Sonnets and the Text of Hamlet Part 2: Subsequent Hamlets 4. Paul Werstine: The Cause of this Defect: Hamlet's Editors 5. Catherine Belsey: Was Hamlet a Man or a Woman?: The Prince in the Graveyard, 1800-1920 Part 3: Hamlet after Theory 6. Jerry Brotton: Ways of Seeing Hamlet 7. Terence Hawkes: The Old Bill 8. Ann Thompson: Hamlet and the Canon 9. Peter Erickson: Can We Talk about Race in Hamlet ? 10. Richard Levin: Hamlet, Laertes, and the Dramatic Functions of Foils Contributors Index

Arthur Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusettes Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusettes, Amherst, USA.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive critical analysis available of one of Shakespeare's best-known and most engaging plays.