On April 25, I gave a plenary lecture entitled "Hamlet and Method: Knowledge Before Critical Thinking" at the annual meeting of Deutsch Shakespeare Gesellschaft in Bochum, Germany. Below is an abstract. ABSTRACT: From the sixteenth century onwards, the notion of “truth” developed hand in hand with the notion of “method.” Indeed, we could think of the latter as comprising teachable procedures for establishing and purveying the former. One of the less commonly noted links betwe