Possibly the best known and most loved of Shakespeare?s tragedies, Hamlet has fascinated the Western world for centuries. Take a look at what some of the best modern-day critics have to say about this timeless play. The title, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
