Representative Thoughts on Hamlet

Here are some representative samples of the Romantic notion that Hamlet is prevented from executing his duty to revenge because of some inner conflict or psychological workings which sabotage his will to act.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
J.W. von Goethe
Charles Lamb
William Hazlitt
Victor Hugo
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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