52, 58-60, 136-7;
dragging, 57;
humour, and false hope, before catastrophe, 61, 63;
obscurities, 73;
undramatic passages, 72, 74;
place among tragedies, 80-8;
position of hero, 89-92;
not simply tragedy of thought, 82, 113, 127;
in the Romantic Revival, 92, 127-8;
lapse of time in, 129, 141;
accident, 15, 143, 173;
religious ideas, 144-5, 147-8, 172-4;
player's speech, 389-90, Note F;
grave-digger, 395-6;
last scene, 256.
See Notes A to H, and BB.

Hamlet, only tragic character in play, 90;
contrasted with Laertes and Fortinbras, 90, 106;
failure of early criticism of, 91;
supposed unintelligible, 93-4;
external view, 94-7;
'conscience' view, 97-101;
sentimental view, 101-4;
Schlegel-Coleridge view, 104-8, 116, 123, 126-7;
temperament, 109-10;
moral idealism, 110-3;
reflective genius, 113-5;
connection of this with inaction, 115-7;
origin of melancholy, 117-20;
its nature and effects, 120-7, 103, 158;
its diminution, 143-4;
his 'insanity,' 121-2, 421;
in Act II. 129-31, 155-6;
in III. i. 131-3, 157, 421;
in play-scene, 133-4;
spares King, 134-6, 100, 439;
with Queen, 136-8;
kills Polonius, 136-7, 104;
with Ghost, 138-40;
leaving Denmark, 140-1;
state after return, 143-5, 421;
in grave-yard, 145-6, 153, 158, 421-2;
in catastrophe, 102, 146-8, 151, 420-1;
and Ophelia, 103, 112, 119, 145-6, 152-9, 402, 420-1;
letter to Ophelia, 150, 403;
trick of repetition, 148-9;
word-play and humour, 149-52, 411;
aesthetic feeling, 133, 415;
and Iago, 208, 217, 222, 226;
other references, 9, 14, 20, 22, 28, 316, 353, Notes A to H.

Hanmer, 91.

Hazlitt, 209, 223, 228, 231, 243, 248.

Hecate, 342, Note Z.

Hegel, 16, 348.

_2 Henry VI._, 492.

_3 Henry VI._, 222, 418, 490, 492.

_Henry VIII._, 80, 472, 479.

Heredity, 30, 266, 303.

Hero, tragic, 7;
of 'high degree,' 9-11;
contributes to catastrophe, 12;
nature of, 19-23, 37;
error of, 21, 34;
unlucky, 28;
place of, in construction, 53-55;
absence of, from stage, 57;
in earlier and later plays, 81-2, 176;
in _King Lear_, 280;
feeling at death of, 147-8, 174, 198, 324.

Heywood, 140, 419.

Historical tragedies, 3, 53, 71.

Homer, 348.

Horatio, 99, 112, 310, Notes A, B, C.

Humour, constructional use of, 61;
Hamlet's, 149-52;
in _Othello_, 177;
in _Macbeth_, 395.

Hunter, J., 199, 338.

Iachimo, 21, 210