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To what degree to do you consider Hamlet to be mad? How do you think your 21st century interpretation might differ from an Elizabethan prospective?

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Have a little read: ... To what degree to do you consider Hamlet to be mad? How do you think your 21st century interpretation might differ from an Elizabethan prospective? Madness can be seen as 'mental incapacity caused by unmentionable injury.' These wounds are not often easily perceived but may revealed in times of stress or anxiety similar to Hamlet's situation where his father has been blatantly murdered, yet it is not obvious to others. In Shakespeare's time, people would have looked upon Hamlet as mad, but they believed madness to be symptomatic of demonic possession, and the only way of driving out the evil was through burning to death. Although people feared madness, Hamlet was and still is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, as his madness cannot be defined. Some believe madness to be the lack of rational thought or the result of a feeling of intense anger. Hamlet simulates madness and uses

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