Bibframe Work

Prologue

Who's there?: a question of identity

The ghost's commandment: 'Revenge my shame'

Freud's "family romances": power and belonging

'Some vicious mole of nature': Bad or just unlucky?

Mad for thy love: infected by the social emotions

Rossencraft & Gilderstone: destiny's happy dupes

The fair Ophelia: Truth or transference?

'Wild and whirling words': Freud's phobia, Dora's dream

To be or not to be?: Conscience and the false self

Hamlet writes the mousetrap: method acting and metatheater

The double soliloquy: Freud's 'compulsion to repeat'

A mirror in the queen's closet: the good enough mother

The prince and his brothers: war, murder, and manhood

'Readiness is all. let be.': disillusion and the strength to bear it

The final curtain: the ghost and the death instinct.