Word: counterfeit
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...strain of hideous uncertainty and brooding breaks at last and a tortured human mind gives way to reaction. For that one brief interval Hamlet is one of us who has suffered to the top of his bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than the actors unchanging tragic mask allowed his most deliberate efforts. A little more of lightness, at those points where the author saw their need, might bring this demi-god to our level...