Partial ms on Hamlet

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and grief lies interpretation "mad for thy love", while those critics with whom I am quarrelling for the most part say "Pretending madness to convince Ophelia and through his lies would that he is mad for love of her." Is that sense, I ask you? Hamlet does and says some bitterly cruel things in the play. But through it all, taking the play

as a whole, he makes the impression [of a gentleman - crossed out], of a manly man, of a gentleman. Would a manly man, a gentleman, however much he wished the world to believe him mad, deliberately pick out the girl he loved to practice his assumed madness on to gain his end with the world? Let men answer. Here is at least a woman who

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