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For centuries, scholars have been debating the issue on whether Hamlet - the prince of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet - was mad. This question is not as easy as it sounds to answer; this is due to the fact that there are numerous arguments to support both si ....

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.... to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth! We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us... * Act 3 Scene 1 One minute Hamlet tells Ophelia that “I did love you once.”1 Then in his next line he says “I loved you not.”2 This quick change in moods suggests that he was mad. Hamlet: Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty- 1 - Act 3, Scene 1 2 - Act 3, Scene 1 ....