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1
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Who said: “All duties seem holy for Hamlet”

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Von Goethe

2
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Who said: “Hamlet is…rather an instrument than an agent”

A

Samuel Johnson

3
Q

Who said: “Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”

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Coleridge

4
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Who said: “Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”

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Wilson Knight

5
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Who said: “Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime”

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Belsey

6
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Who said: “The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct”

A

Alexander

7
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Who said: “Polonius trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”

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Rebecca Smith

8
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Who said: “Revengers create their own civil justice”

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Brucher

9
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Who said: “The corruption articulates a crisis in the decay of a traditional social order in England”

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Jonathon Dollimore

10
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Who said: “The ghost may be a demon tempting him to murder an innocent man”

A

Wiggins

11
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Who said: “Hamlet’s principal concern is not revenge but a desire to purify his mother”

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Adelman

12
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Who said: “Hamlet is the prince of philosophical speculators”

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Hazlitt

13
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Who said: “Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death”

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Wilson Knight

14
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Who said: “Hamlet is an extremely active, indeed feverishly energetic play, it does move forward slowly”

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Kermode

15
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Who said: Polonius is “ made palatable by the fact that he is funny

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Pennington