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Reason, Passion and the Will
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
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Fulke Greville speaks of the will as inevitably divided between reason and passion. Shakespeare takes such a division seriously but, through Hamlet, he recognizes the possibility of reason and passion being united in a man's will and purpose.
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