SERIES INTRODUCTION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS TIMELINE Introduction ANN THOMPSON 1. The Critical Backstory JOHN LEE 2. Performance History LOIS POTTER 3. Hamlet: The State of the Art NEIL TAYLOR 4. New Directions: Hamlet and Gender CATHERINE BELSEY 5. New Directions: Hamlet, Cinema, the World MARK THORNTON BURNETT 6. New Directions: Being Hamlet Not Being Hamlet FRANK McGUINNESS RESOURCES ANN THOMPSON NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play’s critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students’ further reading about the play in print and online Older titles from the series can be found here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/series/continuum-renaissance-drama-guides/