Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-102) and index.
Introduction -- Biographical Sketch -- The Story Behind the Story -- List of Characters -- Summary and Analysis -- CRITICAL VIEWS -- Harley Granville-Barker on Dramatic Expression -- E.E. Stoll on Hamlet's Delay -- Harold Bloom on the Hamlet's Unfulfilled Renown -- A.C. Bradley on the Effects of Hamlet's Melancholy -- William Empson on Shakespeare's First Audiences -- Harold C. Goddard on Hamlet's Individuality -- William Hazlitt on the Character of Hamlet -- A.D. Nuttall on Hamlet's Conversations with the Dead -- Francis Fergusson on Shakespeare's Reworking of his Sources -- Charles R. Forker on the Function of Theatrical Symbolism -- Bert O. States on the Nature of Hamlet's Melancholy -- John Wilders Preface to Hamlet -- Arthur Kirsch on Hamlet's Grief -- Meredith Anne Skura on Hamlet's Theatrical Self-Consciousness -- John Lee on Hamlet's Self-Constituting Selfhood -- Robert Weimann on English Protestantism and the Elizabethan Stage -- Park Honan on The Prince's World.
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Offers a brief profile of Shakespeare, and discusses the plot, characters, and themes in "Hamlet."