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.

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