Hamlet

? contribution to The Four Plays in One (lost, except for A Yorkshire Tragedy, mostly by Thomas Middleton) 1606

The Tragedy of Macbeth (surviving text has additional scenes by Thomas Middleton) 1606-07

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

1608

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

1608

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with George Wilkins 1610

The Tragedy of Cymbeline

1611

The Winter's Tale

1611

The Tempest

1612-13

Cardenio, with John Fletcher (survives only in later adaptation called Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald) 1613

Henry VIII (All Is True), with John Fletcher 1613-14

The Two Noble Kinsmen, with John Fletcher

FURTHER READING

AND VIEWING

CRITICAL APPROACHES

Adelman, Janet, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest (1992). Psychoanalytical approach.

Bradley, A. C., Shakespearean Tragedy (1904). Immensely influential.

Colie, Rosalie L., Shakespeare's Living Art (1974). Excellent on the idea of melancholy.

Frye, Roland Mushat, The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses 1600 (1984). Invaluable historical placing.

Granville-Barker, Harley, Hamlet in his Prefaces to Shakespeare Vol. 1 (1946). Very satisfying reading by a great man of the theater.

Greenblatt, Stephen, Hamlet in Purgatory (2001). Powerful reading of context of religious controversy.

Jones, Ernest, Hamlet and Oedipus (1949). Extended Freudian reading.

Knight, G. Wilson, "The Embassy of Death" in his The Wheel of Fire (1930, repr. 2001). Very strong on imagery.

Mercer, Peter, Hamlet and the Acting of Revenge (1987). Worth comparing with Prosser.

O'Toole, Fintan, Shakespeare Is Hard, but So Is Life (2002), originally published as No More Heroes (1995). Highly sensible introductory account, with strong emphasis on politics; dispels the myth of the "tragic flaw."

Prosser, Eleanor, Hamlet and Revenge (1967). Worth comparing with Mercer.