‘Stark Raving Sane’: Melancholy as a Form of Fictionality in Hamlet

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  • Laura Seymour Birkbeck, University of London

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Shakespeare, Hamlet, Modality, Melancholy, Subjectivity

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‘Stark Raving Sane’: Melancholy as a Form of Fictionality in Hamlet. (2011). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 23. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/95