Introduction: Hamlet within Hamlet
Chapter 1. Hamlet, Humanism, and Performing the Self
Humanism, Self-Knowledge, and Public Living
Moral Dislocation and the Unsettled Self
Chapter 2. Hamlet, Hunting and the Nature of Things
Transforming Saxo Grammaticus
Faking It: Huntsmen, Hypocrites, and Seeming Virtue
Chapter 3. Hamlet as Historian
Rights of Memory and the History of the Danes
The Dozy Arithmetic of Memory
Memory, Reason, and the Eyes of the Mind
Memory, Recollection, and the ars memoriae
Metaphor and Misrepresentation
Chapter 4. Hamlet as Poet
Chapter 5. Hamlet as Philosopher
The Good, the Bad and the Boethian
More Things in Heaven and Earth
Being, Nothingness, and Inconsequentiality
Conclusion: Shakespearean Tragedy and the Death of Humanism.