The book offers the possibility of time travel. Your "Hamletologist" companion guides you like a tour guide into the corners of the play's world. As you read, you pretend to be a theatergoer. All the more so because the title of the series in which the book was published encourages us to do so: "Towards the theater!" But you are not a viewer of just any theater, you are specifically sitting in the auditorium of the Globe in London. And not even today, but in Shakespeare's time, when Queen Elizabeth I still reigned. So while you are still a reader and are familiar with perhaps the most popular play in the world in your own age, you imagine that you are "watching" a performance several centuries earlier, in an English theater community. And live actors who haven't been alive for a couple of hundred years will perform at this theater show...