Includes index.

Love and Hatred. Courtly Love. Romance. Men and Men, Women and Women. The Family -- Warfare. The Stage. The Cause. The Soldiers. Henry V -- Madness and Melancholy. Madness. Feigned Madness. Melancholy. Hamlet -- The Prince. Gaining Power. Keeping Power. Losing Power. Love versus Duty. Kingship -- Illusion. The Stage. The Play Within a Play. Masks. Disguises. Mistaken Identities. "Strange Shapes" -- Universal Order. The Chain as One. The Chain as Links. Political Order -- The Supernatural. Ghosts. Witches and Soothsayers. Clerics. Deus ex Machina. Magicians and Fairies -- Evil (and Good). Evil by Nature. Villains for Cause. Shylock. Evil Women. Comic Villains. The Good -- The Hero. The Martial Hero. The Antihero. The Tragic Hero -- The Comic Muse. Court Fops and Nincompoops. Fools and Clowns. Insults. Double Meanings, Puns, and Malaprops. Falstaff -- The Choric Voice. Commoners as Chorus. Characters as Chorus. Choruses as Chorus.