Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter One. Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family 1
5. Chapter Two. Hamlet’s Mourning and Revenge Tragedy 26
6. Chapter Three. History, as between Goethe’s Hamlet and Scott’s 71
7. Chapter Four. Hamlet’s Expectations, Pip’s Great Guilt 102
8. Chapter Five. Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist 140
9. Index 175