Richard Meek is a Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, specialising in Shakespeare and early modern literature. He is the author of Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare, which was published by Ashgate in 2009, and a number of edited collections. He is currently completing a book on sympathy in early modern literature and culture, provisionally titled The Relativity of Sorrows. This paper, '"For by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his": Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion', was delivered at a symposium on ‘Hamlet and Emotions: Then and Now’ at The University of Western Australia on 10 April 2017.