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The Australasian cites '"Jaques" who writes "Readings by Starlight" in the London Evening Star. Jaques had made mention of Was Hamlet Mad?, edited by R. H. Horne.
In the Australasian's quotation, Jaques says that 'at Melbourne, the genius of Shakespeare has set half the literary folk at loggerheads on the pretended madness of Hamlet'. He continues: 'One must say that not only are the Melbourne people the originators of the critical combat, but that they manage their controversy with more tact, learning, reading, and humour, than our men do. In this they are certainly true to their bold and spirit-stirring motto, "Advance Australia".'
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- Hamlet 1600 single work drama
- Was Hamlet Mad?; or, The Lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson 1867 anthology correspondence
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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