... can feel toward losing a parent and so must mock these intense feelings. Even his mother wants him to " Caste thy nighted colour off And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark" Act one, scene 2, line 67/68 When she says Denmark she is not only referring to country but king ... unmanly" and "incorrect to heaven" must be unimaginable. This too coming from the two people he should be grieving with but is loathing, his dead father own brother who has married his mother. This "incestuous" marriage would be the beginning of hamlets depressive state of mine. Shown in his soliloquy later in ...

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... , probably of the plague (61). He was buried in Hackney Cemetery in London, however his tomb mysteriously disappeared. Many people, including de Vere's own descendants believe that his body was moved to Westminster Abbey, among other great writers. If he is buried here, it is probable that he is buried ... a great writer, it has also been said that he became mute later in life. His high rank made it impossible for him to sign his own name to his works because it would have been an embarrassment on his family's name (The Shakespeare Mystery). At this time, public theatre was considered ....

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