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This topic comes up about once a week; scroll down and check earlier pages for other discussions. I offer a purely practical one: while it is possible in the real world for different crazy people to have different symptoms, that would be overly confusing in a play. And since Ophelia clearly does go mad, and since Hamlet does not go about handing out flowers and singing dirty songs, he isn't mad the way she is - and therefore, in the audience's experience, he isn't mad.

Posted by Hamlet on March 24, 1997 at 11:17:23
 In Reply to "Comments on "WAS HAMLET MAD??"" posted by John Owen on March 23, 1997 at 19:14:58


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