25. Hamlet and no end. 2. Horatio -- 3. Plays within plays within plays -- 4. Two soliloquies -- 5. Ophelia -- 6. Shakespeare to the players -- 7. The mousetrap : contrary will -- 8. Gertrude -- 9. Claudius -- 10. The impostume -- 11. The grave-digger -- 12. Wonder-wounded hearers -- 13. In my heart there was a kind of fighting -- 14. We defy augury -- 15. Let it be -- 16. Apotheosis and tragedy -- 17. Hamlet and the high places -- 18. Fortinbras -- 19. Had I but time, o, I could tell you -- 20. Annihilation : Hamlet's wake -- 21. The fusion of high and popular art -- 22. Hamlet as the limit of stage drama -- 23. The end of our time -- 24. The hero of consciousness -- 25. Hamlet and no end.
Summary:
Hamlet: poem Unlimited is Bloom's attempt to uncover the mystery of both Prince Hamlet and the play itself, how both prince and drama are able to break through the conventions of theatrical mimesis and the representation of character, making us question the very nature of theatrical illusion. In twenty-five brief chapters, Bloom takes us through the major soliloquies, scenes, characters, and action of the play, to explore the enigma at the heart of the drama, that is central to its universal appeal.
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