I'm with Don Firth on this one. Hamlet acted courageously, and with full justification throughout, albeit he was a moody and melancholy sort. Moody and melancholy heroes make for good tragic storylines. For that, Hamlet is about as good as they come. Ye scabby and malodorous varlets who would slander his name from a safe office chair are merely vexed because he did cut a far more valorous figure in both life and death than ye shall ever do, methinks! Thieves and cutpurses all, may ye perish in foulest perdition and be the scorn of street mendicants and alehouse drunkards!