ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a rough preliminary draft of an essay on Hamlet and draws the attention of readers to Mr. Roy Walker’s very important study in imaginative interpretation, The Time is Out of Joint. The author offers a restatement, intended, however, less to contradict than to extend and expand his earlier remarks, whilst enlisting for new attention certain scenes and speeches hitherto unjustly neglected. Hamlet suffers for his profundity, for his advance, prematurely hastened by his ghost-converse, beyond normality and mortality. He is on the way to superman status in the Nietzschean sense. As a thinker, Hamlet is still tangled in the web of good and evil, though he has glimpses of something more important. Hamlet is here in momentary possession of his own universe, surveying those opposite approaches to his goal, of fine action and endurance, or of both—if it may be possible—in one, with which, from start to finish, the play is mainly concerned.
