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LIBRARY SOURCES
SOME SOURCES TO CONSIDER
Anderson, Judith H. "Wonder and Nostalgia in Hamlet." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 58, no. 2, 2018, p. 353+. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A545291855/ITOF?u=mlin_m_cambsch&sid=ITOF&xid=41367b82. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.
Corum, Richard. Understanding Hamlet : A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=77745&site=eds-live.
ALISON A. CHAPMAN. “Ophelia’s ‘Old Lauds’: Madness and Hagiography in ‘Hamlet.’” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, 2007, p. 111. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.24323015&site=eds-live.
Davies, Michael. Hamlet : Character Studies. Continuum, 2008. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=837509&site=eds-live.
Desai, Rupin W. Shakespeare the Man : New Decipherings. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=736106&site=eds-live.
Gourlay, Patricia S. “Guilty Creatures Sitting at a Play: A Note on Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, 1971, pp. 221–225. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2859198.
Howard, Jean E., and Marion F. O’Connor. Shakespeare Reproduced : The Text in History and Ideology. Routledge, 2004. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=640782&site=eds-live.
Kiernan, V. G. Shakespeare : Poet and Citizen. Zed Books, 2016. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1168277&site=eds-live.
Knowles, Ronald. “Hamlet and Counter-Humanism.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, 1999, pp. 1046–1069. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2901835.
Laoutaris, Chris. Shakespearean Maternities : Crises of Conception in Early Modern England. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=258117&site=eds-live.
Rzepka, Adam. “‘How like a God’: Shakespeare and Early Modern Apprehension.” Shakespeare Studies, 2018, p. 211. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.561883490&site=eds-live.
Terry, Reta A. “‘Vows to the Blackest Devil’: Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, 1999, pp. 1070–1086. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2901836.
Totaro, Rebecca. “Securing Sleep in Hamlet.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 50, no. 2, 2010, pp. 407–426. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40658436.
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