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The table of contents lists the course of lectures as:
I. The Play Scene
II. The Ghost
III. The dark elements in the character of Hamlet (a) Relations with Ophelia
IV. contd. (b) Relations with Polonius (c) Relations with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
V. The Delay
VI. The Ethics of the Revenge
VII. Is the play coherent?

Drafts of lectures given over several decades, showing later revisions and changes of order of presentation, later mined for a proposed book of essays on the same subject. Some original lecture scripts may be found with the drafts for the book of essays, marked up for printing.

Drafts for a book of essays which had the earlier proposed title, "Essays on Hamlet problems." Some of these drafts are lecture scripts carrying revisions and with footnotes added. The sequence of the essays changed over time and consequently there are varying chapter numbers at the top of drafts of the same essay. Some essays are represented by one or two drafts, while others are represented by five or six drafts. One or two pages are written on verso of letters received in 1991 and 1992.

The miscellaneous writings consist of notes for a lecture given in Tokyo and Kyoto Universities in early 1983 on "Hamlet and the ethics of the revenge," a review of the Marlowe Society's Hamlet dated Apr. 1980, and an Appendix B to an autobiography [?] explaining his change of career. The miscellaneous notes include several headed "Prosser" with notes on a book on Hamlet [by Eleanor Prosser?]; accompanied by cuttings from two Italian newspapers in April 1970 reporting on his lecture on Hamlet and Ophelia at a British Council conference in Naples.