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Section 2: Texts

Core

  • Multimedia
    • Hamlet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition, William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library, Simon and Schuster, 2014
  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “Depressive Illness Delayed Hamlet’s Revenge,” Aaron Shaw and Neil Pickering, BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd., 2002
    • Excerpt from “The Sanity of Hamlet,” Tenney L. Davis, The Journal of Philosophy, 1921
  • Tradebook
    • Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Simon and Schuster, 2003

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “A Brief History of Psychiatry,” Neel Burton, Psychology Today, 2012, 2017
    • Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1, Paapa Essiedu performance, Simon Godwin (Director), Royal Shakespeare Company, 2017
    • “To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Andrew Scott performance, Robert Icke (Director), Almedia, 2017
    • “To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh performance, Kenneth Branagh (Director), Sony Pictures, 1996
    • “To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Maxine Peake performance, Sarah Frankcom (Director), Royal Exchange, 2014
    • “To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Mel Gibson performance, Franco Zeffirelli (Director), Warner Brothers, 1990
  • Multimedia
    • Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh, Sony Pictures, 1996