Performance, Subjectivity and Slander in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing - Adam Piette suggests that Goffman's interpretative framework and key terms are useful when interpreting performances of Shakespeare's plays. Renaissance Tragedy and Investigator Heroes - Article focusing on Hamlet and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. A Romance of Electronic Scholarship, with the True and Lamentable Tragedies of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Donald Foster focuses on the Q1 Hamlet. Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, and Martin Luther - Steve Sohmer argues that Shakespeare linked the principal events in Hamlet to particular holy days, and that the play's first audiences could identify these holy days from cues in the text. Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Controversies of Self - Roger Starling reviews the John Lee book. A Note on Hamlet's Illegitimacy: Identifying a Source of the "dram of eale" Speech (Q2 1.4.17-38) - Steve Sohmer identifies a previously unrecognized source for Hamlet's speech: De Laudibus Legum Angliae, written by Sir John Fortescue (1394? - 1476?), Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Henry VI. A Synoptic Hamlet: A Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto and First Folio Texts of Hamlet - Steve Roth reviews the Jesús Tronch-Pérez book. Hamlet as the Christmas Prince: Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, Revels, and Misrule - Steve Roth analyzes a two-month trope in the Hamlet quartos. Making Mother MatterRepression, Revision, and the Stakes of Reading Psychoanalysis Into Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet - Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks argue that "Branagh's Hamlet reproduces the Oedipal triangle in its most conspicuous, paternalistic form." Loose Ends and Inconsistencies in the First Quarto of Shakespeare's - Y. S. Bains rebuts G. R. Hibbard's general conclusions about the quality of the text of Q1.