Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Neoclassical Approaches, or 'Does Ophelia's breath smell?' Sensibility to Romanticism: 'the majesty of melancholy' Psychoanalytic Approaches: Oedipus and After The Early Twentieth Century: Bradley, Eliot, Knight and Knights Some Contemporary Interpretations Recent French Philosophy and Hamlet: Derrida and Levinas Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Huw Griffiths is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was previously Research Fellow at the Scottish Institute of Northern Renaissance Studies, UK.