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Just dropping here a bibliography of good #Hamlet scholarship - the latest and the greatest. What'd I miss? Your favorites?

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Bevington, David. Murder Most Foul: Hamlet through the Ages. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bourus, Terri. Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Carlson, Marvin. Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.

Cavell, Stanley. “Hamlet’s Burden of Proof.” Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 179–91.

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Craig, Leon Harold. Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet: A Study of Shakespeare's Method. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Critchley, Simon; Webster, Jamieson. Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine. New York: Pantheon Books, 2013.

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Curran, John E., Jr. Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Cutrofello, Andrew. All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014.

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Dawson, Anthony B. Hamlet: Shakespeare in Performance. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1995.

Dodsworth, Martin. Hamlet Closely Observed. London: Athlone, 1985.

De Grazia, Margreta. Hamlet without Hamlet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Eliot, T. S. “Hamlet and His Problems.” The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, 1920. 87–94.

Frye, Roland Mushat. The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.

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Loftis, Sonya Freeman; Allison Kellar; and Lisa Ulevich. Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Gottschalk, Paul. The Meanings of Hamlet: Modes of Literary Interpretation Since Bradley. Albequerque: U of NM Press, 1972.

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Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

Hunt, Marvin W. Looking for Hamlet. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

Johnson, Laurie @LostPlayhouse. The Tain of Hamlet. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

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Kiséry, András. Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016.

Lesser, Zachary @ZacharyLesser. Hamlet after Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

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Levin, Harry. The Question of Hamlet. NY: Oxford UP, 1959.

Lewis, Rhodri @profrhodrilewis. Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness. Princeton UP, 2017.

Litvin, Margaret @margaretlitvin. Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost. Princeton UP, 2011.

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McGee, Arthur. The Elizabethan Hamlet. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Menzer, Paul @paulmenzer. The Hamlets: Cues, Qs, and Remembered Texts. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.

Mercer, Peter. Hamlet and the Acting of Revenge. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1987.

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Owen, Ruth J. The Hamlet Zone: Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Prosser, Eleanor. “Hamlet” and Revenge. 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1971.

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Zamir, Tzachi, ed. Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Neil Taylor and Ann Thompson. Revised Ed. London: Arden Third Series, 2006.

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Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Robert S. Miola. New York: Norton, 2010.

Thompson, Ann, and Neil Taylor, eds. Hamlet: A Critical Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Wilson, J. Dover. What Happens in “Hamlet.” 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1951.

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