e regarded Shakespeare's play as a closet- drama and repudiated the hisuionic tradition of Hamlet criticism, initiated by
David Garrick and scrupulously pursued by Charles Kemble, J.P. Kemble, and
Edmund Kean. There is no denying the fact that a play by Shakespeare,
notwithstandingi original excellence as a piece of literature, becomes more
arresting than ever when it is Wanslated into stage
