aws the primary focus of those who read Hamlet. That ability to evoke interest in the readers is what makes the theme of malcontent and the feeling of melancholy stronger than the question of Hamlets sanity. Debating over Hamlets sanity takes a more skilled reader to pick up on the details of Shakespeares writings, whereas anyone is able to read Hamlets soliloquies and dialogues, especially with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and immediately pick up on his melancholic tone.NOTES1 Christine Gomez The Malcontent Strain in Hamlet. Hamlet Studies: An International Journal of Research on The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 14. 1-2 (1992): 67.2 Leonard Ashley R.N. No might I doe it pat: Hamlet and the Despicable Non-Act in the Third Act. Hamlet Studies: An International Journal of Research on the Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 13.1-2 (1991): p. 88.3 Gomez 71. 4 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine (New York: Washington Square-Pocket Books, 1992) II. ii. 321-326. All further references to this play are taken from this edition and will be cited in the body of the paper.5 Francesca Bugliani, In the mind to suffer: Hamlets Soliloquy To be or not to be, Hamlet Studies: An International Journal of Research on the Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 17.1-2 (1995) : p. 14. 6 Bugliani 13. 7 Harry Levin, The Antic Disposition, The Question of Hamlet (New York: The Viking Press, 1967) p. 117. 8 Gomez 70. 9 Gomez 69. 10 Gomez 71. 11 Gomez 67.12 Ashley 85. 13 Ashley 91. 14 Ashley 90. 15 T.S. Eliot, Hamlet and His Problems, Discussions of Hamlet. ed. J.C. Levenson (Boston: D.C. Health and Company, 1960): 49. 16 Eliot 49. 17 Eliot 49. 18 Eliot 49.19 Gomez 71. 20 Gomez 71. 21 Gomez 71. 22 Levin 111. 23 Gomez 68. 24 Gomez 70.25 Bugliani 13. 26 Gomez 72.27 J. Dover Wilson, Antic Disposition Discussions of Hamlet. ed. J.C. Levenson (Boston: D.C. Health and Company, 1960): 69.28 E...
