Full of interest in Hamlet, and enthusiasm for it—comes closer than any other play to some of the strangest secrets of human nature—what is the key to the mysterious hold of this play on the world’s mind?
Morley reflects on the profound impact of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' on human understanding and its enduring appeal.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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