I can't believe you're still this unfair to Hamlet!
Just on 1) - 'boring' for Denmark is a pretty harsh description of someone who's obsessively depressed, and with bloody good reason to be so. He's been betrayed by both his parents (and if he were a manipulative shit, by God he's learned it from the best in his father!), deprived of the opportunity to grieve for his father properly, and has nobody around who can give him the least bit of help in trying to keep it together.
It's very easy to pull out a quote to show he's lying about having been mad at any particular point, but you could do the same at other points to show those aren't any more reliable than his saying he is. I don't think he knows, because the play doesn't know. IMO the whole play is having - or possibly just IS - a psychotic break with reality. You're really going to blame Hamlet himself for having a skewed perspective and being a obsessively stuck in that position?
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Just on 1) - 'boring' for Denmark is a pretty harsh description of someone who's obsessively depressed, and with bloody good reason to be so. He's been betrayed by both his parents (and if he were a manipulative shit, by God he's learned it from the best in his father!), deprived of the opportunity to grieve for his father properly, and has nobody around who can give him the least bit of help in trying to keep it together.
It's very easy to pull out a quote to show he's lying about having been mad at any particular point, but you could do the same at other points to show those aren't any more reliable than his saying he is. I don't think he knows, because the play doesn't know. IMO the whole play is having - or possibly just IS - a psychotic break with reality. You're really going to blame Hamlet himself for having a skewed perspective and being a obsessively stuck in that position?