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Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
151.
319,
354,
356,1
413, 1
426, f
480, li
PREFACE
Contents
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CHAPTER I
IDENTIFICATION OF CHARACTERS
Conflicting Theories.-Sir Philip Sidney.-Hamlet Foreign to
Shakespeare's Times.-Touches Him on Many Sides.-The
Poet's Mental Sufferings.-Causes.-Essex and Southamp-
ton.-Religious Dissensions and Persecutions.-Richard II.
and Queen Elizabeth.-Julius Caesar.-Essex and Brutus.-
Conspiracy Crushed.-Misfortunes of Friends.-Personal
Danger.-Melancholy.-The Tragedy Revised.-The Gloomi-
ness of Hamlet more Emphasized.
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ERRATA
P. 151, foot-note, read p. 30 for p. 36.
P. 319, line 19, read reliance for alliance.
354, foot-note, read p. 35 for p. 51.
356, line 4, read counselors for councelors.
P. 413, foot-note, read e VI. p. 35 for e VII. 51. 426, foot-note, read p. 233 for p. 297.
480, line 10, read fulfilling for fulfiling.
Undiscoverea Country.
The Visible and the Invisible World.-The Common Law of Divine Providence .
CHAPTER IV
IS HAMLET A PANTHEIST
Varied Claims.-Giordano Bruno.-Shakespeare Attends his Lectures.-Borrows his Philosophic
Principles.-Brief
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ton.-Religious Dissensions and Persecutions.—Richard II.
and Queen Elizabeth.—Julius Caesar.-Essex and Brutus.—
CHAPTER II
RELIGION OF DENMARK IN HAMLET'S DAY
Christianity Introduced into Denmark.-Worshippers of Odin.-
Harold the Christian.-Swengen.-Canute the Great.-A
Catholic Hamlet of the Elizabethan Era.-Saxo Gram-
maticus.-The Incarnation of Protestantism.-Refutation.—
Thornbury.-Cardinal Newman..
CHAPTER III
IS HAMLET A POSITIVIST
Positivism Ancient and Modern.-A Religious System.-Its
Negations in Contrast with Hamlet's Affirmations.-"The
Undiscovered Country."-A Misconception.-Refutation.-
The Visible and the Invisible World.-The Common Law of
Divine Providence .
Is HAMLET A PANTHEIST
Varied Claims.-Giordano Bruno.-Shakespeare Attends his
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Sketch of Bruno.-Arrives in London.-Queen Bess.-Letter
to Oxford University.-Theories Unacceptable.-Lampoons
the University.-Assumption Refuted.-Bruno's Pantheism
and Shakespeare's Faith Contrasted.-Christian
theism. The Angelic Doctor.-An Epitaph.
CHAPTER V
HAMLET A STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY
Pan-
At School in Wittenberg.-An Anachronism.-Philosophic
Schools in Germany.-The Renaissance and Universities of
Europe.-A Conspiracy.-Recent Discoveries.-Testimony
of non-Catholic Authors.-Celebrated Philosophic Schools
in Germany. Magdeburg.-Hildesheim.-A Professor and
Countryman of Hamlet.-In Opposition to the "Reform-
ers' of Wittenberg.
CHAPTER VI
THE AGE OF HAMLET
Controversy. Skillful Legerdemain.-An Allusion.-Contradic-
tory Ideas. Duration of Time.-Accelerated and Retarded
Movements. Hamlet's Real Age.-Convincing Evidence.-
Objection Refuted.-Age of Students in the Elizabethan
Era. A Disparity.-An Historic Fact.-Hamlet's Ma-
turity. A Compromise. .
CHAPTER VII
HAMLET'S RIGHT TO THE CROWN
The Legitimate Heir.-Werder and Hudson.-Refutation.—Nul-
lity of the Queen's Marriage.-Three Canonical Impedi-
ments.-Claudius and the English Uxorcide.-An Error.-
Case of Queen Catherine of Aragon and of Gertrude not
Parallel. Hamlet's Insistence upon the Nullity of the Mar-
riage. His View that of Shakespeare and his Times.-The
Catholic View.-Claudius the de facto King. Hamlet the
de jure King. . .
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