akespeare wrote it. John Philip Kemble went beyond Garrick's conception of the hero feigning madness to somthing more Romantic
if not melodramatic. Charles Kemble's Hamlet was downright insane
and Edmund Kean's erratic if exciting. Coleridge said that watching
Kean was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." Kean's
pyrotechnics left little room for an introspective tragic hero. Ke
