critics hamlet Flashcards
TS Elliot on Hamlet being art
“It is ‘the Mona Lisa’ of literature”
TS Elliot on Hamlet’s character
“Hamlet is dominated by an emotion, which is inexpressible”
Bratton on hamlet
“only in production is its potential realized”
Belsey (revenge) in hamlet
revenge exists on a margin between justice and time
Adelmen (H) on hamlet
Hamlets goal is “not to avenge his father but to remake his mother”
Neely (O) (madness) hamlet
“Ophelia’s madness differs from Hamlet’s because of gender differences”
Kirsch (grief) hamlet
“Hamlet’s grief is intensified by the functional loss of his mother and the inability to mourn his father”
Prosser (L) on hamlet
“he defies his sovereign king, his conscience and his God”
Morris (religion) hamlet
“by no stretch of the imagination can it be said that the play reveals him throughout as a man of faith”
Altick (corruption) on claudius
“the cunning of claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole of denmark
