Part 1. Interpretations. 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.
Part 2. View points. E. E. Stoll: Hamlet's fault in the light and other tragedies.
J. Dover Wilson: antic disposition.
Ernest Jones: Hamlet and Oedipus.
C. S. Lewis: Hamlet-the prince and the poem?
G. Wilson Knight: the embassy of death.
Salvador de Madariaga: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Peter Alexander: the complete man.