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The 'Literature & Art' column reproduces a paragraph from the London Athenaeum's 'Our Weekly Gossip' column of 14 December 1867: 809. The Athenaeum reports: 'Melbourne has been amusing itself with the question, "Was Hamlet Mad?" It arose out of Mr. Walter Montgomery's interpretation of the Dane. Five gentlemen ... have been vigorously arguing for, against, and for a little to be said on both sides ... What halcyon days for Melbourne when lawyers and medical men have leisure to discuss a question which Shakespeare himself, perhaps, would have been puzzled to elucidate!'
The 'Literature & Art' column also notes various additional items of literary interest; these are sourced from a range of British and American journals.
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- Was Hamlet Mad?; or, The Lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson 1867 anthology correspondence
- Melbourne, Victoria,
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