Critics Flashcards
“He feels his father’s grief not only as a son, but as a lover”
Dover Wilson
“Too exquisitely touching to be dwelt on”
Hazlitt -Ophelia
“Chiefly interesting… in what she tells us about Hamlet”
Showalter -Ophelia
“Literally has no story without Hamlet”
Edwards -Ophelia
“Misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time”
Bevington -Ophelia
“Generally too much the dignified Queen”
Jones -Gertrude
“Sensuality is her outstanding character… That is seldom bought out”
Jones -Gertrude
“Is revenge any better an excuse for killing than ambition is?”
Watson
“A good and gentle king”
Knight -Claud
“Not of blame but of genuine and tender regret”
Richardson -Hamlet
“Subject to having his mind overwhelmed by passion”
Newall -Hamlet
“Hamlet’s humanity renders him incapable of action”
McEachem
“Fought more from suicidal impulse than a lust for revenge”
Rosenberg -Laertes
“The role of revenges… is more capably filled by Laertes”
Jenkins
“Faceless automatons”
David -Ros/Guild
