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HAMLET  NAVIGATOR

Basic Navigation:

Scene Index: Links to scenes, with brief summaries. The text has a line number for each line.

Search: Search the text of Hamlet for any word or combination of words.

More Navigation:

Detailed Scene Summaries: With links to passages in the text.

Character Reviews: Annotated links to all appearances of a character and all mentions of that character by other characters.

Hamlet: Annotated links to passages that illustrate aspects of Hamlet's character.

Themes: Annotated links to passages particularly relevant to significant themes.

Also of interest:

     —The Picture Page (Under Construction)

     —Selected Bibliography (Under Construction)

     —A.C. Bradley's Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Hamlet: A Q&A guide to Bradley's justly famous Shakespearean Tragedy, reprinted on another part of the Shakespeare Navigators site.

     —T.S. Eliot's very famous (and very snotty) essay, "Hamlet and His Problems," in which Eliot defines "objective correlative" and declares that Hamlet "is most certainly an artistic failure."

     —Ernest Jones' "The Oedipus-Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery."

     —Pages from Coleridge's Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets, in which the great Romantic poet describes Hamlet as one who thinks too much.

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Other stuff:

• A page of  "Tips on Using Hamlet Navigator," including citation information.
• A page about the  author of Hamlet Navigator.
• Our e-mail address.

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