Though this be madness, yet there is method in't

The Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was educated at Eton and Oxford, was friendly with the Rossettis, and even lived with Dante Gabriel Rosetti at one time; certainly part of the of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.   He might offer a contradictory perspective to some of the earlier ideas we have seen on  Hamlet .  A. C. Swinburne: from 'A Study of Shakespeare' 1880 ... it should be plain to any reader that the signal characteristic of Hamlet's inmost nature is by no means irresolution or hesitation or any form of weakness, but rather the strong conflux of contending forces. That during four whole acts Hamlet cannot or does not make up his mind to any direct and deliberate action against his uncle is true enough; true, also, we may say, that Hamlet had somewhat more of mind than another man to make up, and might properly want somewhat more time than might another man to do it in; but not, I venture to say in spite of Goethe, through innate inadequ...