Heyday

There's evidence in the play and in the world around Shakespeare that Hamlet is an Artist/Adaptive.  For example, the play was written a few years after the Armada Crisis. Strauss and Howe call this First Turning "Merrie England," and it can be expected to be comparable to other 1Ts, like the one after World War II. Accepting that Hamlet is a teenager (as he acts) not a 30-year-old (as the less-than-reliable gravedigger indicates) he would have been born during that Crisis, over-protected and without the sense of elation that the Hero/Civic generation had.

In The Best Years of Our Lives, there's a section where Peggy, the daughter of one of the war veterans, complains that her parents don't remember what it's like to be in love, as she is. It is certainly reminiscent of Hamlet's complaint to his mother that "At your age, the heyday in the blood is tame." Unlike Gertrude, Peggy's mother and father respond with what it's like to be a bit older, and the experience of knowing how love changes over time - but that they still know what it means.