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A.C. Bradley "Hamlet" from Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)
John Thomas Looney: "Dramatic Self Revelation: Hamlet" from "Shakespeare" Identified (1920)
John Dover Wilson "Antic Disposition" from What Happens in Hamlet? (1956)
Dr. Harold Goddard: "Hamlet" from The Meaning of Shakespeare (1951)
Rebecca West: "A Court and a World Infected by the Disease of Corruption" from The Court and the Castle
Dr. Felicia Londre: "Hamlet
as Autobiography" Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters,
Hosei University #39.
Felicia Londre, distinguished theatre historian from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, considers some of the ways in which the Earl of Oxford's life is reflected in this consummate autobiographical drama. This is the first of many articles on specific plays and poems, demonstrating the myriad autobiographical links between de Vere's life and the texts of the Shakespearean canon.
"To conclude, it's only right that I allow Edward De Vere to speak for himself in the person of Hamlet. For a man to whom artistic expression was his very lifeblood, the restriction against the use of a noble name on any wronged work destined for public consumption must have been a source of personal anguish."
Dr. Roger Stritmatter: "Hamlet's Aletheia: The Gospel of John as Pretext and Subtext of Hamlet" (pdf format) from PhD dissertation (2001).
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