| Contents: Part 1
Textual Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction
Selective Bibliography (Editions of Hamlet, 1850-1900; Critical, Bibliographical, and Textual Studies, 1850-1900; Critical and Textual Studies in German, 1850-1900; Critical and Textual Studies in French and French Translations, 1850-1900; Medical, Psychological, and Critical Studies of Hamlet's Insanity, 1850-1900; Stage History, Modern Discussion)
1. George Henry Lewes ('Charles Kean's Hamlet'; 'Hamlet and the German Actors'; 'From The Life of Goethe: Hamlet and Wilhelm Meister; Hamlet and Faust'; 'From "Fechter in Hamlet and Othello"'; 'From "First Impressions of Salvini"')
2. Richard Grant White ('Comments on Hamlet, III,i: Hamlet; Ophelia'; 'Comment on Hamlet, III,iii'; 'Comment on Hamlet, IV,iv'; 'Note on the available texts'; 'From introductory remarks to Hamlet'; 'From "The Case of Hamlet the Younger": Ophelia; Did Hamlet see the ghost in the closet scene?; Hamlet's sanity or insanity; The moral lesson of Hamlet; Hamlet's appearance on the stage, and the text'; 'Stage Traditions: The Closet Scene')
3. William Watkiss Lloyd ('From "Critical Essay on Hamlet"'; 'Comment on "How all occasions do inform against me"')
4. Henry Hope Reed ('From "Four Lectures on Tragic Poetry: Hamlet"'; 'Hamlet's inaction')
5. Walt Whitman: 'From "Shakespeare Born"'
6. John Charles Bucknill ('Hamlet'; 'Ophelia')
7. Charles Dickens: 'Mr Wopsle Plays Hamlet'
8. George Eliot: 'From The Mill on the Floss'
9. Samuel Timmins
10. The Times Review of Fechter's Hamlet
11. Charles Cowden Clarke
12. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine ('Shakespeare's style'; 'Hamlet')
13. Victor Hugo
14. Thomas Kenny ('From "The Men and Women of Shakespeare"'; 'Hamlet')
15. The Hamlet Controversy (James Smith; 'John Brown' [James Neild]; 'Thomas Jones' [Charles Bright]; 'Jack Robinson' [Archibald Michie]; 'Jack Robinson (Jun.)' [David Blair]; James Smith; 'R.H.H.' [R. H. Horne])
16. James Russell Lowell
17. George Henry Miles
18. Alfred Lord Tennyson ('Maud as a nineteenth-century Hamlet'; 'Tennyson's letter to Dr Mann'; Two theatre visits 1873, 1874')
19. 'Mr Irving's Hamlet'
20. Henry Irving's first night as Hamlet
21. The Times Review of Mr Irving's Hamlet
22. Edward Dowden ('From Shakspere: His Mind and Art'; 'From the introduction to the edition of Hamlet, 1899')
23. Frank Marshall: 'From the Preface'
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24. Anthony Trollope
25. A. W. Ward ('The First Quarto'; 'Shakespere's Power of Characterization')
26. F. J. Furnivall ('From his "Introduction" to "Hamlet" in the Leopold Shakespeare'; From Measure for Measure')
27. John Weiss ('The Gravediggers'; '"Antic Disposition" and Comedy'; 'Polonius'; '"Antic disposition" and irony"')
28. George Wilkes
29. Henry Irving ('Hamlet and Ophelia. Act III, scene 1'; 'The opening of Irving's lecture, 1890')
30. Mary Cowden Clarke: 'From "Ophelia; the rose of Elsinore"'
31. Edmund Falconer
32. Margaret Oliphant
33. Helena Faucit, Lady Martin
34. Algernon Charles Swinburne
35. Joseph Knight
36. Matthew Arnold
37. The Times Review of Wilson Barrett's Hamlet
38. Ernesto Rossi
39. William Moy Thomas
40. George MacDonald ('From the "Preface" to his edition of Hamlet [1885]'; 'Hamlet, I,11,129ff.'; 'Hamlet, I,v,108-9'; 'Hamlet, I,v,121-2'; 'Hamlet, I,v,151'; 'Hamlet, I,v,173'; Hamlet, II,1,3-4'; Hamlet, II,1,88f.'; 'Summary at end of Act II'; 'Hamlet, III,1,105'; 'Hamlet, III,iii,73f.'; 'Hamlet, III,iv,23'; Hamlet, III,iv,25'; Hamlet Q2 IV,iv,221-2'; 'Hamlet Q1 IV,v, 21 s.d.'; Hamlet, IV,v,145f.'; Hamlet, V,11,357. Endnote')
41. F. G. Fleay ('Shakespeare's Public Career'; 'Shakespeare's...Personal Connections with other Poets'; 'The Chronological Succession of Shakespeare's Plays')
42. Julia Wedgwood
43. Hiram Corson: 'Hamlet'
44. Fredericka Beardsley Gilchrist
45. Sinclair Korner
46. William Ward Crane
47. Mowbray Morris
48. The Times Review of Beerbohm Tree's Hamlet
49. Master Jack Howison (aged 12)
50. Barrett Wendell
51. John Corbin
52. George Bernard Shaw ('From "The Old Acting and the New"'; 'From "Michael and his Lost Angel"'; 'From a letter to Ellen Terry'; 'Review of Forbes Robertson's Production')
53. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
54. Frederick S. Boas
55. Ella Adams Moore
56. Ivan Turgeniev
57. Kate Terry Gielgud ('Hamlet. Lyceum Theatre, 25, September, 1897'; 'Hamlet. Adelphi Theatre. A Translation from the French. 21 June, 1899')
58. John M. Robertson
59. Georg Brandes ('Hamlet...Trails of Danish Manners'; 'The Psychology of Hamlet'; 'Hamlet as Drama'; 'Hamlet and Ophelia'; 'Hamlet's Influence on Later Times')
60. Sir Sidney Lee
61. Max Beerbohm
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