Illustrations
Introduction
1. Method and Social Geography
FROM:
Niccol6 Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
2. Theatre and Tragedy
FROM:
Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses. Contayning
a Discoverie, or briefe Summarie of such Notable
Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many
Christian Countreyes of the Worlde (1583)
An official petition submitted by the Lord Mayor and
the Aldermen of the City of London to Queen
Elizabeth's Privy Council 28 July 1597
Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penilesse his supplication to
the Diuell (1592)
3. Literary Analysis: Hamlet's Options
4. Man, Melancholy, and Suicide
5. Enter Ghost... Exit Ghost
FROM:
Reginald of Piperno, Supplementum to Aquinas's
Summa Theologica, Question LXIX (c. 1274)
Ordinances of the Gild of the Palmers (1284)
Noel Taillepied, A Treatise of Ghosts, Being the
Psichologie,~ or Treatise upon Apparitions and
Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Figures,
Strange Prodigies, and of Other Miracles and
Marvels (1588)
Pierre la Primaudaye, The French Academie (1594)
The Geneva Bible, Deuteronomie XVII: 10-12 and
Iohn IIII:1 (1560)
Ludwig [Lewes] Lavater, Of ghostes and spirites,
walking at nyght, And of straunge noyses, crackes,
and sundrie forewarnings (1570)
James vI of Scotland, The Thirde Booke of
Daemonologie (1597)
Pierre le Loyer, IIII Livres des spectres ou
apparitions (1586)
Euripides, Hecabe (425 B.C.)
Seneca, Troades (A.D. 65)
Jasper Heywood's Troas, a translation of Seneca's
Troades (1559)
6. Revenge (,) the Crime
FROM:
Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass being the
Metamorphoses (c. A.D. 150)
The Hystorie of Hamblet (1608)
Sir William Segar, The Book of Honor and Armes
(1590)
Stephen Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure (1509)
Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune (1596)
Sir John Harrington, "Breefe Notes and
Rembraunces," Nugae Antiquae (c. 1600-1601)
7. Antic Dispositions: The Hero as Fool
FROM:
The Geneva Bible, The First Boke of Samuel
XXI:10-15; XXII:I (1560)
The Roman History written in Latine by Titus Livius
[Livy], II, lvi-lix (A.D. 17)
The Hystorie of Hamblet (1608)
8. Gertrude, Thy Name Is Woman
FROM:
Sir William Segar, Honor Military and Civill (1602)
Durham Ecclesiastical Court Records (c. 1560)
The Geneva Bible, The Third Boke of Moses, called
Leuiticus XVIII:6, 16; XX:21 (1560)
Thomas Becon, "Of the Office of Widows,"
Catechism (1564)
An Homily on the State of Matrimony (1563)
John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet against
the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558)
Jane Anger her Protection for Women (1589)
9. Over Ophelia's Dead Body
FROM:
Michael MacDonald and Terence R. Murphy,
Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modem England(1990)
Minutes and Accounts of the Corporation of
Stratford-upon-Avon, Vol. III (1577-1586)
Carolus Musitanus, De Morbis Mulierum (1709)
Conclusion
Index