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Is "melancholy mad" an actual phrase?
I've heard the description "melancholy mad" in a couple of different places, and I was trying to clarify its meaning. Searching for it got me nowhere. Is "melancholy mad" a real phrase, and if so, what does it mean?
The first place I remember hearing it, at least recently, I can't quote exactly, because it was a video documentary that I don't have with me. It was about Alexander the Great, and the narrator said that Alexander's soldiers were beginning to fear that he was melancholy mad.
The second was talking about Samuel Beckett: "Less the lover’s sad steps, as in the sonnet by Philip Sidney, than those from mourning to melancholia: 'melancholy mad' is the phrase Beckett uses in gently distancing himself from the woman whom he simultaneously recalls with longing."
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- owenLv 45 years ago
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