Hamlet: Enter Critic

On a recent vacation trip I happened into Baine's Books and Coffee in Appomattox, VA.  Among the selection of used books I found one entitled Hamlet:  Enter Critic, edited by Claire Sacks and Edgar Whan.  It is an old book, copyright 1960.  In the preface, the editors describe their rationale for the work.  It represents a "controlled selection of critical material" in a field with an enormous amount of spilt ink.  Seeing the names of some of the authors represented--Dickens, Eliot, Olivier, Poe--was enough for me to pick it up.  (The minimal cost was a factor as well.)

Occasional posts to the blog may come from this resource as well, especially as they reflect performances of Hamlet.