Madness

Question 1

Crawford 1916 ‘hamlet deliberately feigned…

Answer 1

‘Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness..to disconcert the king’

Question 2

T.S Eliot 1920 ‘for Shakespeare it is less..

Answer 2

‘For Shakespeare it is less than madness & more than feigned’
- his repetition of phrase & his puns - not part of a deliberate plan of dissimulation but a form of emotional relief

Question 3

Tree 19th century ‘the key comic…

Answer 3

‘The key comic element of the play is madness’

Question 4

Johnson 18th century ‘an instrument…

Answer 4

‘An instrument not an agent’