ueen, has married her husband’s murderer before her previous marriage bed was cold. His dead father lives as a ghost. Polonius is a meddling spy for Claudius. It is little wonder that Hamlet feigns madness in order to throw people off to his own intentions and knowledge. As Polonius says to the King and Queen “Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy sphere…” and “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t” (Shakespeare II.ii.1083; 1084). Hamlet himself admits “I am bu
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