Introduction / David Bevington --
Shakespeare's tragic period : Hamlet / A. C. Bradley --
Hamlet and his problems / T. S. Eliot --
Place-structure and time-structure / Harley Granville-Barker --
Hamlet and the nature of reality / Theodore Spencer --
The new doubt / D. G. James --
The world of Hamlet / Maynard Mack --
An approach to Hamlet / L. C. Knights --
Interrogation, doubt, irony : thesis, antithesis, synthesis / Harry Levin --
Hamlet as minister and scourge / Fredson Bowers --
The theme / Bertram Joseph --
Hamlet's fault in the light of other tragedies / E. E. Stoll --
Antic disposition / J. Dover Wilson --
Hamlet and Oedipus / Ernest Jones --
Hamlet : the prince or the poem? / C. S. Lewis --
The embassy of death / G. Wilson Knight --
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern / Salvador de Madariaga --
The complete man / Peter Alexander.