We have been so used to this tragedy, Hamlet, that we hardly know how to criticize it any more than we should know how to describe our own faces.  But we must make such observations as we can.  It is the one of Shakespeare’s plays that we think of the oftenest, because it abounds most in striking reflections on human life, and because the distresses of the principle are transferred, by the turn of this mind, to the general account of humanity.