Critics Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Hamner 1736
A
Hamlet is “ inhumane” and “unworthy of a hero”
2
Q
Johnson 1765
A
“Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent “
3
Q
Collier 1698
A
Ophelia = “lewed and unreasonable “
4
Q
Allan Poe 1846
A
“ the death of a beautiful woman is , questionably the most poetic topic in the world “
5
Q
Lawrence 1921
A
“ the soliloquies of hamlet are as deep as the soul of man can go “
6
Q
Edwards 1979
A
“ ophelia literally has no story without hamlet “
7
Q
Holderness 1989
A
“ hamlet idealises the medieval world of his father “
8
Q
Mcevoy 2006
A
Ophelia and Gertrude = “ the virgin and the whore “
9
Q
Hyster 2010
A
“ the play was written about a surveillance state “
