This is why the essays andĬritical studies on the play are more like commentaries. Never fails to surprise and bewilder the spectator. Tragedies as well as from the works of others in that its course of action The tragedy of Hamlet is generally considered an enigma. Vygotsky 1925 Chapter 8: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 304.) where his falling into a fort of a Pun upon bringing in the Pipe, is a great Fault, for it is too low and mean for Tragedy.Soviet Psychology: Chapter 8: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark His Behaviour to those two Courtiers, whom the Ufurper had fent to dive into his Secret, is very natural and just, because his chief Business was to baffle their Enquiries, as he does alfo in another Scene, (p.

I must confess, nothing is more difficult than to draw a real Madness well, much more a feign'd one for here the Poet in Hamlet's Cafe, was to paint fuch a Species of Madness as should not give cause of Sufpicion of the real Grief which had taken Poffeffion of the Prince's Mind. The whole Conduct of Hamlet's Madnefs, is, in my Opinion, too ludicrous for his Character, and for the fituation his Mind was then really in. HAMLET'S Letter to Ophelia, which Polonius reads, is none of the best Parts of this Play, and is, I think, too Comick for this Piece. To speak Truth, our Poet, by keeping too close to the Ground-work of his Plot, has fallen into an Abfurdity for there appears no Reason at all in Nature, why the young Prince did not put the Ufurper to Death as foon as poffible, efpecially as Hamlet is reprefented as a Youth fo brave, and fo careles of his own Life. Which Design, had it taken effect upon his Life, he never could have revenged his Father's Murder. I cannot but think this to be injudicious for fo far from Securing himself from any Violence which he fear'd from the Ufurper, which was his Defign in fo doing, it feems to have been the most likely Way of getting himself confin'd, and confequently, debarr'd from an Opportunity of Revenging his Father's Death, which now feem'd to be his only Aim and accordingly it was the Occafion of his being fent away to England. To conform to the Ground-work of his Plot, ShakeSpeare makes the young Prince feign himself mad.

Now I am come to mention Hamlet's Madness, I muft fpeak my Opinion of our Poet's Conduct in this Particular.

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