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VII. An Essay on the Character of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson
Affiliation:
Minister of Dalmeny
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The Character of Hamlet, has been variously judged of by critics, and what might be expected, it has been still more variously represented by performers upon the stage. Shakespeare himself seems to have apprehended that this would happen; and that injustice would be done to a hero, who probably, in his estimation, ranked higher than any other that he has brought into the drama.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1790 , pp. 251 - 267
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1790

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References

page 257 note * Mirror, &c.

page 259 note * Mirror.

page 261 note * Since writing this Essay, I have the pleasure to find, that the same idea has occurred to Mr Professor Richardson, in his additional observations on Hamlet; and which he has successfully enlarged upon.

page 264 note * The one anonymous, in No. 99. and 100. of the Mirrror; the other, the Analysis of Hamlet, by Mr Richardson.