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Introduction
A summary of the plot
What is Hamlet about?
Who or what is the Ghost?
Why are the doubts about the Ghost so disturbing?
How important is Gertrude’s incest?
Does Hamlet suffer from an Oedipus Complex?
Are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern “excellent good friends” – or “adders fang’d”?
Why does the Mousetrap fail?
Why doesn’t Hamlet listen to Horatio?
Why does Fortinbras matter?
How pessimistic is Hamlet?
NOTES
Rank and degree
An epistemological tragedy
Ears
Gertrude
Incest and Christian culture
Is Hamlet mad?
Ten facts about Hamlet
Roy Battenhouse’s “Ten Questions on Hamlet”
Hamletand Troilus and Cressida
Critics and the Mousetrap
Hamletin Europe
The madness of Ophelia
Changing views on Hamlet
Ten famous quotes
A short chronology
Bibliography
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