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Could be

That's as good a theory as any. Seriously, it IS one of the explanations offered, and the strongest evidence is that S goes out of his way to show us that H is depressed BEFORE meeting the ghost. They were very aware of what we would call clinical depression, and what they called melancholy; if yours is a research project, read Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and see how well it describes H.

Posted by Hamlet on April 10, 1997 at 09:50:02
 In Reply to "Shakespeare's Hamlet" posted by Gabriella M on April 09, 1997 at 13:09:18


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