1. Henry Miller’s “A Letter to Hamlet,” The Cosmological Eye (New York: New Directions, 1939) 233. This letter was written in 1935.
2. Angélica Liddell, La falsa suicida, ARTEA 2011 (Cuenca: Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 2011) 4. For the full text of Liddell’s play, see (
http://artesescenicas.uclm.es
/archivos_subidos/textos/175/Angelica%20Liddell-La%20falsa%20suicida.pdf).
3. See A. C. Bradley’s comments, Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth (1901; Teddington: The Echo Library, 2006) 84.
4. Elaine Showalter, “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism,” Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, ed. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman (New York and London: Methuen, 1985) 77–94; 75.
5. On the “Ophelia Phenomenon,” see Alan R. Young, “The Ophelia Phenomenon,” Hamlet and the Visual Arts 1709–1900, ed. Alan R. Young (London: Associated University Press, 1984) 279–345.