Core Texts
Sir John Everett Millais
Art
“To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Mel Gibson performance
Franco Zeffirelli
Cinema
“To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh performance
Kenneth Branagh
Cinema
“To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Maxine Peake performance
Sarah Frankcom
Cinema
“To Be or Not to Be,” soliloquy from Hamlet, Andrew Scott performance
Robert Icke
Cinema
Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1, Paapa Essiedu performance
Simon Godwin
Cinema
“Get Thee to a Nunnery,” excerpt from Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh performance
Kenneth Branagh
Cinema
Optional Texts
Ophelia Before the King and Queen
Benjamin West
Art
John William Waterhouse
Art
"Hamlet and Elizabethan England"
Hannah Lavery
Other
Iseult Gillespie
Other
"Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter"
David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
Other
"A Brief History of Psychiatry"
Neel Burton
Educational
Spanish Texts