Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Chronology -- The Background of William Shakespeare -- The Educated Man -- Religion, Grief, and Suicide -- The Death of a Son and a Father -- The Issue of Corruption in Hamlet -- Corruption in Denmark -- Politics in Hamlet -- Sickness in Denmark -- Claudius Turns the World Mad -- Corruption Is a Progressive, Pervasive Disease -- Hamlet Is Corrupt, Not Claudius -- The Corruption of Reason -- Corruption's Effect on Love -- Corruption Destroys a Generation -- Corruption in the Twenty-first Century -- Corruption Creates Economic Inequality -- Corruption in a Global Corporate Empire -- Corruption and the Pentagon -- Torture and Espionage -- Exploiting Clients and Third World Countries -- Justice Politicized.