AO5 Critics Flashcards
(13 cards)
“Questions are only asked when people are uncertain, this is the world of Hamlet”
Gill 1998
Which version does Ophelia wear a wired veil?
Kozinstev 1964
Who presented the transgenerational trauma theory for Hamlet?
National Theatre, Benedict Cumberbatch
“Gertrude is very dull and shallow”
AC Bradley
“There is no sense in which Ophelia may be said to grow up in the course of the play”
Charney 1998
“Hamlet cannot resist the human impulse to perform”
Woods on the Mousetrap
“The most individual protagonist is entangled in a series of similarities”
Woods
“It is the resurrected Hamlet who says “Let it be” rather than “to be or not to be””
Bloom on Act 5
“Fortinbras seems to embody Hamlet’s ideal of kingship”
New Penguin Hamlet 1980
“Hamlet dying in battle is his vindication”
Wilson 1935
“It’s not only Hamlet, but the play that delays”
Kermode
“Revenge is not justice. It is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice”
Besley
“Hamlet looks within and outside itself”
Hopkins on the play within
