![]() ![]() ![]() HAMLET'S Letter to Ophelia, which Polonius reads, is none of the best Parts of this Play, and is, I think, too Comick for this Piece. To speak Truth, our Poet, by keeping too close to the Ground-work of his Plot, has fallen into an Abfurdity for there appears no Reason at all in Nature, why the young Prince did not put the Ufurper to Death as foon as poffible, efpecially as Hamlet is reprefented as a Youth fo brave, and fo careles of his own Life. Which Design, had it taken effect upon his Life, he never could have revenged his Father's Murder. ![]() I cannot but think this to be injudicious for fo far from Securing himself from any Violence which he fear'd from the Ufurper, which was his Defign in fo doing, it feems to have been the most likely Way of getting himself confin'd, and confequently, debarr'd from an Opportunity of Revenging his Father's Death, which now feem'd to be his only Aim and accordingly it was the Occafion of his being fent away to England. To conform to the Ground-work of his Plot, ShakeSpeare makes the young Prince feign himself mad. Now I am come to mention Hamlet's Madness, I muft fpeak my Opinion of our Poet's Conduct in this Particular. ![]()
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