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Johnson, in commenting on the passage (v. ii. 237–255), says: ‘I wish Hamlet had made some other defence; it is unsuitable to the character of a good or a brave man to shelter himself in falsehood.’ And Seymour (according to Furness) thought the falsehood so ignoble that he rejected lines 239–250 as an interpolation!
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Bradley, A.C. (1992). Hamlet’s Apology to Laertes. In: Shakespearean Tragedy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22059-5_17
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