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Section 3: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “Depressive Illness Delayed Hamlet’s Revenge,” Aaron Shaw and Neil Pickering, BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd., 2002
    • Excerpt from “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism,” Elaine Showalter, Methuen Publishing, 1985
    • Excerpt from “The Sanity of Hamlet,” Tenney L. Davis, The Journal of Philosophy, 1921
  • Multimedia
    • Hamlet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition, William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library, Simon and Schuster, 2014
  • Tradebook
    • Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Simon and Schuster, 2003
  • Digital Access
    • Ophelia, Sir John Everett Millais, Wikipedia, 1851

Optional

  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “Hamlet: A Feminist Argument,” Steve Henderson, ThoughtCo., 2019
  • Multimedia
    • Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh, Sony Pictures, 1996