Introduction

Peter Adams: A Face Without a Heart, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Individualism. He says the play suffers from an excess of familiarity with its many famous lines. And if you're philosophically minded, he writes, you'll keep getting distracted by thoughts about metaphysics or ethics. Peter Adams: This is a play that is mostly about failure to act, which might seem like a dramatic flaw but since this is Shakespeare, of course, it isn't.