'Where's Polonius?' / Interpreting a Passage In Hamlet
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A 5 page paper on the very short passage in Act IV, Scene III of Hamlet, in which Claudius asks Hamlet what he has done with Polonius' body. It argues that Hamlet's strange responses address not only the location of the body, but Claudius' guilt for Hamlet's father's death. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Polonius.wps

“Hamlet and the Odyssey”
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A five page paper which looks at some of the similarities and differences between Hamlet and Homer’s Odyssey, with reference to the characters of the main protagonists, the influence of the supernatural, and the way in which the heroes face their personal challenges. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLOdyssHam.rtf

“Hamlet” – Still Debated After All These Years
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“Hamlet” – Still Debated After All These Years: This 6-page essay examines a number of critics’ opinions relevant to some of Shakespeare’s themes in “Hamlet.” Undoubtedly, this play and most all of the Bard’s work will continue to be a prime source of much armchair discourse for additional centuries to come. Bibliography lists 5 sources. SNHamlet.doc
Filename: SNHamlet.doc

“Hamlet” and “Coriolanus” -- Examples of Shakespeare’s Portrayal of Self-Destruction
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This 5 page report discusses the dramatic tone and devices used by Shakespeare in both “Hamlet” and “Coriolanus” is one of bitterness, tinged with a sense of betrayal. He also presents his audiences with characters who are completely self-absorbed. In both tragedies Shakespeare explores the nature and effects of evil that exists in the actions of human beings. The fact that one character is a broody and almost manic Dane while the other is an arrogant and determined Roman soldier is not the point. The point is the connection that exists between power, misperceptions, and betrayal. Mention is also made of the title characters’ mothers and their role. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWhamcor.rtf

“Hamlet” as the Most Important of Shakespeare’s Plays for 19th Century Romanticists
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This 5 page report explores the idea that “Hamlet” was what literary critic Northrup Frye described as the “central and most significant play, because it dramatized a central preoccupation of the age of Romanticism: the conflict of consciousness and action...No other play has explored the paradoxes of action and thinking about action so deeply.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWfryham.rtf

“Madness in Hamlet”
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A five page paper which looks at the theme of madness in Hamlet, in relation to Hamlet himself, Ophelia and Claudius, and the different ways in which they react to the pressures and stresses which they suffer in the course of the play. Bibliography lists 2 sources
Filename: JLhamletmad.wps

“The role of poison in Hamlet”
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A five page paper which looks at the way in which poison is used in Hamlet, both in terms of the demise of the characters and as a metaphor for the corruption which destroys Denmark, and the part that Hamlet himself plays in this destruction. Bibliography lists 5 sources
Filename: JLPois.rtf

“The theme of decay and corruption in Hamlet”
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A five page paper which looks at the main themes in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with particular reference to the images of decay, corruption and poison which recur throughout the text. The way in which these images reflect both the degeneration of Denmark and the deterioration of Hamlet’s mental stability is examined, and how an obsession with the physical rather than metaphysical elements of death comes to motivate Hamlet’s thoughts and actions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLhamletdecay.rtf

"To Be or Not to Be"
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This 5 page paper is a close examination of Hamlet's most famous speech. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HV2BeNot.rtf