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Hamlet Insane or Antic Disposition?
Is Hamlet mad? This is a question which has plagued the minds of generations of readers and critics, and one that have drawn various analysis and theories. Hamlet’s sanity is not just an academic debate, but one which is contemplated by every reader/viewer of the play when he replays the play again and again in his mind. His being insane or otherwise, affects the perceptions of the reader in many significant ways. It will explain many things like why Claudius refuses to accept in his mind that Hamlet is mad, but yet publicly ...