Reading List on Shakespeare and Tragedy

This is intended for a study of Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba, the books here are central to this study, although there may be other important works of tragedy that will be added later.

Hamlet by Shakespeare

Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of Time into the Play by Carl Schmitt

What Have I Done? by Carl Schmitt (Short essay available in The Tyranny of Values)

Political Theology by Carl Schmitt

Roman Catholicism and Political Form by Carl Schmitt

The Nomos of the Earth by Carl Schmitt

The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin

Shakespeare by Johann Gottfried von Herder

Selected Writings on Aesthetics by Johann Gottfried von Herder

Shakespeare: A Tribute by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Essays and Letters by Friedrich Hölderlin