Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- Preface -- A note on the texts of Hamlet -- Acts and scenes in the Arden 3 Q2 Hamlet -- Part 1. Approaching Shakespeare -- 1.1 A Man of the Jacobethan Theatre -- 1.2 Companies- Actors-Stages- Audiences -- 1.3 Venus and Lucrece -- 1.4 Errors and Two Gentlemen -- Part 2. Approaching Hamlet -- 2.1 Revenge with Complications -- 2.2 A Play by Shakespeare -- Part 3. Actors and Players -- 3.1 Old Hamlet / the Ghost -- 3.2 Horatio -- 3.3 Claudius -- 3.4 Gertrude -- 3.5 Polonius -- 3.6 Laertes -- 3.7 Ophelia -- 3.8 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern -- 3.9 The gravediggers -- 3.10 Osric -- 3.11 Fortinbras -- 3.12 Hamlet -- 3.13 "The best players in the world" -- Part 4. Acts and Devices -- 4.1 Acts -- 4.2 Scenes -- 4.3 Soliloquy and Colloquy -- 4.4 Verse, Prose, and Song -- 4.5 Metatheatre -- 4.6 Doubling -- 4.7 Special Effects -- 4.8 Exits -- Part 5. Hamlet and Twelfth Night -- Part 6. Critics' Corner -- 6.1 Bibliography -- Books about Hamlet -- Major films of Hamlet -- General Criticism -- 6.2 Web-sites -- APPENDICES: HYPERLINK-TEXTS -- serious doubt -- theatre-space -- breath-length -- discovery-space -- comedic and tragedic modes -- Vice -- Inconclusive -- Speculation -- Blackfriars -- Ciceronian periods -- Humanities Insights.