In the Shakespeare’s Big Four tragedies, the main character is dumb in three—Lear, Othello, and Macbeth. Hamlet alone is not dumb. Antony, Coriolanus, and Romeo are all pretty dumb as well.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
He went to school at Wittenberg, that’s hard to get into.
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Replying to @AryehCW
Hamlet is a play about a guy who has one job (avenge his father's death by killing his uncle), which he achieves only after, through a series of fuck-ups, getting many, many other people killed & his country taken over by a foreign power.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
There's also the Harold Bloom interpretation that Hamlet is so smart he realizes he's in a hackneyed play (ghosts, pirates) and works to destroy it.
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Replying to @AryehCW
There's some truth to that. Like Iago, Hamlet is a thwarted playwrite/director.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
He directs the play within the play, and adds in the end of the Player King's speech, "Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own."
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That's his excuse for being a fuck-up.
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