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These are two distinct propositions combined in this passage: first, Nietzsche's version of the old wisdom about the despair that lurks behind the mask of a clown - Hamlet must suffer tremendously if he feels compelled to play a crazy clown; and second, what makes him suffer, what drives him mad, is not his doubt but his certainty about who murdered his father; and his doubt, his search for the ultimate proof of Claudius's guilt, is an escape from his certainty.