ao5 Flashcards
(16 cards)
“The play is built up on Hamlet’s hesitations […] but the text offers no reasons or motives for these hesitations”
Sigmund Freud MODERN
“Hamlet’s power is paralysed by an excessive development of intellect”
Wolfgang EARLY
“Hamlets genius might even become his doom”
Bradley MODERN
“Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience of her own, so stifled is she by the authority of the male world”
Dusinberre MODERN
“Melancholia is at the root of Hamlet’s problems”
Bradley MODERN
“You can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”
Edward’s MODERN
“Gertrude is a nurturing and caring maternal presence rather than a shallow sensualist”
Smith MODERN
“The ghost dominates even in his absence.”
Hawkes MODERN
“Claudius is no simple villain but a complex, compelling figure”
Hawkes MODERN
“Gertrude’s adultery turns all women into prostitutes and all men into potential cuckolds”
Traub MODERN
“Hamlet is surrounded by people and places which remorselessly remind him of the dead King”
Kerrigan MODERN
“The ghost initiates a nightmare”
Greenblatt MODERN
“The Ophelia figure was a kind of feminine ideal: totally passive, sexualised, and utterly defined by her romantic relationships.”
Ingram MODERN
“Ophelia and Gertrude can be seen as representatives of the two archetypes of women in early modern drama: the virgin and the whore.”
McEvoy MODERN
“The depiction of Ophelia is lewd and unreasonable”
Collier EARLY
“Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent”
Johnson EARLY
