Wit and Madness Dryden, in his essay "Absalom and Achitophel," claims, "Great wits are sure to madness near allied." Is Hamlet's wit so above...

Consider
Einstein.  Don't you have to be a little "mad" in order to be a visionary, to see
beyond the "real" world?  That said, I don't know that Hamlet falls into this
category.  The stress of grief, and of knowledge unshared, the inability to come to a decision -
these are the issues that plague him and cause such fretfulness of
feeling.