I. HAMLET
“WILD JUSTICE”: THE MORALITY OF REVENGE
- The Geneva Bible, Romans 12:14‚21 (1560)
- The Geneva Bible, Romans 13:1‚5 (1560)
- Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 2.2, Question 108: “Of Vengeance”
- John Calvin, Commentary on Romans (1540)
- “An Exhortation concerning Good Order, and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates” (1547)
- Joseph Hall, “Of the Good Magistrate,” Characters of Virtues and Vices (1608)
- The Geneva Bible, Romans (1560)
- Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge,” The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625)
“VINDICTA MIHI”: THE TRAGEDY OF REVENGE
- Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, 3.13
“HAMLET, REVENGE”
- Thomas Nashe, “Preface” to Robert Greene, Menaphon, (1589)
- A Warning for Fair Women, Induction (1599)
OLD HAMLET’S GHOST
- Lewes Lavater, Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night (1572)
- The Geneva Bible, Deuteronomie (1560)
- Noel Taillepied, A Treatise upon Ghosts, Being the Psichologie, or Treatise upon Apparitions and Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Fgures, Strange Prodigies, and of Other Miracles and Marvels (1588)
SPECIAL PROVIDENCE
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
- The Geneva Bible, Matthew 10:28-31 (1560)