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Harris believed that Shakespeare's life experience directly filtered into his works, not only in the way that every author will draw on his personal experience in creating characters and plot lines, but that Hamlet, as well as several others of the Bard's major characters, were actually alter egos of William Shakespeare himself (or at the very least, of individual traits and aspects of Shakespeare's personality, at various times of his life). Though Harris begins his survey with the Prince of Denmark (as well as Romeo, Jaques from "As You Like It" and Macbeth), he continues to draw parrallels to Hamlet in the book's later chapters as well, and you really only get a feeling for his overall drift if you read the entire text. Thus, here it is, broken up by chapters:
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