and wind direction, southerly breezes being the more wholesome to the afflicted mind, hence Hamlet’s comment of (II. 2 377-378) It was also thought that moods and madness were affected by the moon’s cycles and were especially prevalent and violent at a full moon, hence the word “lunacy” Fits and remissions in the hero’s lunacy were a feature of the source play, The Spanish Tragedy.
Madness in the play Hamlet-
Passion was considered to be both a manifestation and a cause of madness, a kind of delirium…
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