Table of Contents
A Note on Texts and Line
References
Author’s Preface: The Gross and Scope of My Opinion
The Source of this Our Watch
His Semblance is His Mirror
How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?
The Journey Is the Reward
For This Relief Much Thanks
Chapter One: How Many Years Had Hamlet the Dane?
The Critics
Sixeteene Years Had Hamlet the Dane
The First Quarto
The First Folio
Counting on the Gravedigger
Thirty Dozen Moons
Noble Dust of Alexander
Fortinbras: The Delicate and Tender Prince
The Morn and Liquid Dew of Youth
Hamlet the Student
How Many Years Hath Hamlet the Play?
Amleth and the Ur-Hamlet
The Question of Character
Chapter Two: Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time
The Ghost Walks
Murder Most Foul
O’erhasty Wedding
Christmas Break
Hamlet’s “Monday Morning”
The Mousetrap Sequence
Ophelia’s Closet
Ophelia’s Many a Day
Fortinbras’ Promised March
Hamlet at Sea
Sudden and More Strange Return
Ophelia’s Flowers
The Gravedigger Sequence
Tomorrow Is St. Valentine’s Day
Claudius the Cruel
Not Shriving Time Allowed
The Burial of Katherine Hamlett
Julius Caesar and the Pirates
Shrovetide Revels at Court
The Christmas Prince
Hamlet and Hamnet
Puzzling the Will
Chapter Three: A Certain Convocation of Politic Worms
Go Not to Mine Uncle’s Bed
Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark
Hamlet the Heir
Chiefest Courtier, Cousin, and Our Son
Return to Wittenberg
The Pate of a Politician
The Very Cunning of the Scene
Chameleon’s Dish
Denmark’s a Prison
Counselor Most Secret and Most Grave
Sweet Nymph
Conception Is a Blessing
Oh, Wonderful Son
The Imperial Jointress of this War-Like State
The Morn and Liquid Dew of Youth
Chapter Four: The Age Is Grown So Pick’d
The Heel of the Courtier
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Shakespeare and The University Wits
The Parnassus Plays
Hamlet the Player
His Picture in Little
Th’ Expectation and Rose of The Fair State
Chapter Five: Bear Hamlet Like a Soldier
The Greatest Honor
The Undiscover’d Country
To Act, To Do, and To Perform
Hamlet, Revenge!
Murder Most Foul
What Happens in the Mousetrap
As Kill a King
Where’s Your Father?
When Honor’s at the Stake
Appendix A: A Tragicall Hystorie of Hamlet’s Age
The Critics Speak
Appendix B: Hamlet, Parnassus, and the War
of the Theaters
A Clown’s Head
Giving the Poets a Pill
The Croaking Raven Doth
Bellow for Revenge
Appendix C: Thirty Dozen Moons: How Many Years
Had Gertrude the Queen
The Marriage of Frederick II of Denmark
The Oxford/Cecil Connection
Appendix D: Shakespeare, the Calendar, the Catholics, and The Stars
Calendar Reform and the Catholic Threat
Shakespeare and the Catholic Calendar
Hamlet and the Infinite Universe
Astronomical Language in Hamlet
Appendix E: Yond Same Star That’s Westward from the Pole
Cepheus Rising
Appendix F: The Drowning of Katherine Hamlett
To Act, To Do, To Perform
Maimed Rites
A Dead Woman in Tiddington
A Hamlet Timeline
About the Author
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