Hamlet - Madness

Hamlet - Madness

1. 'As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on' (1,5)

2. 'As if he had been loosèd out of hell To speak of horrors—he comes before me' (2,1)

   • Elizabethan love melancholy

3. 'He said I was a fishmonger. He is far gone' (2,2 Polonius)

   • Hamlet's 'antic disposition'

4. 'Mad for thy love?' (2.1 - Polonius to Ophelia)

5. 'Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go' (3.1 - Claudius)

6. ' I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range.' (3.3 - Claudius)

   • Madness as excuse for killing him

7. 'I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft' (3.4, Hamlet)