Hamlet Navigator Home Page

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

Scene Summaries and Abstracts: With links to passages in the text.

The Characters of Hamlet: Annotated links to all appearances of a character and all mentions of that character by other characters.

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

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

Also of interest:: —Notable Quotes in Hamlet: Each quote is briefly explained and linked to the text, so you can see the quote in context.; —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.