Suggested there is "no reason at all in nature as to why the young Prince did not put the usurper to Death as soon as possible, especially as Hamlet is a Youth so brave and so careless of his own life"
Crawford - "deliberately feigned fits of madness"
"There is much evidence in the play that Hamlet deliberately feignedfits of madness in order to confuse and disconcert the king and his attendants"
Mack - Hamlet "inherited" his situation
His situation was "inherited" and he was "born to set it right" indicating that his madness is an effect of the corrupted situation he was born into
Mack - "greatest riddle"
Mack says that "Hamlet realises he is the greatest riddle of all"
Goethe - "sinks beneath a burden he cannot bear"
"A lovely, pure and most moral nature, which without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away"
--> his madness comes without reason but he must endure it
