Talk:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark You Decide Page

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Interesting the discussion is as if the character (a fictional creation) were a real human and not the product of an Elizabethan writer with a very different concept of illness and disease!

Melancholy is the key to Hamlet's illness, and 'sickness' of the soul.

Why do readers always assume that a writer, particularly a great writer in the throes of creative ecstasy, cannot get beneath the skin of humanity, and depict real, flesh-and-blood people through making black marks representing language on a piece of paper.

It's more a subjective statement of limitations than a comment on the creative work of the possibly the greatest writer in the English language and possibly all time.

If physicists can quantify and qualify worlds they will never experience, why can't writers do the same?