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May I nominate three essays for your consideration? In alphabetical order (of course): Cole, Susan Letzler. "'Maimed Rites': Shakespeare's _Hamlet_" in her book _The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence_ (University Park, PA and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985): 41-60. Crapanzano, Vincent. "Maimed Rites and Wild and Whirling Words" (chapter 13) in his book _Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire: On the Epistemology of Interpretation_ (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992): 283-314. Professor Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY; his cross-disciplinary reading is remarkable for its insight, erudition, and provocation. Hawkes, Terence, "Telmah," in _That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a Critical Practice_ (London and New York: Methuen, 1986): 92-119. Brilliant, as usual from him, and written with his characteristic perception, wit, and clarity. (N.B.: not out of false modesty do I resist the urge to add my own work to this list--it owes much to all 3 of these.) Happy reading, Naomi Liebler