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If Hamlet is mad, then there is no tragedy – Discuss Hamlet’s madness is feigned, faked and put on – period! If he was truly mad then how can there be a tragedy in the full Greek sense
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If Hamlet is mad, then there is no tragedy - Discuss Hamlet's madness is feigned, faked and put on - period! If he was truly mad then how can there be a tragedy in the full Greek sense of the term? Macbeth may have shown shades of madness/desperation towards the end of his life - he was, after all corrupted by evil, but 'Hamlet' is a 'Revenger's Tragedy' not a 'let's all go mad and kill everyone', history play. The key lies in 2 quotations: ".........I will put on an antic disposition' and: "..I can tell a hawk from a handsaw" NB: This is a mistranslation. Shakespeare actually wrote - "...a hawk from a hernshaw" - a 'hernshaw' being ancient English for a heron! You can see how he is saying starkly - 'I am not mad unless I want to be and you suckers can't see it!' So, even though he knew Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were in...
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