critics Flashcards
Bradley (G)
“the queen was not a bad-hearted woman”
TS Elliot on Hamlet being art
“It is ‘the Mona Lisa’ of literature”
TS Elliot on Hamlet’s character
“Hamlet is dominated by an emotion, which is inexpressible”
Wilson (G)
“the stock from which he sprang was rotten”
Jones (C)
“his uncle incorporates the deepest and most buried part of his own personality”
Showalter (O)
“a powerful figure who rebels against the family and social order”
Bratton
“only in production is its potential realized”
Shapiro
“Shakespeare was always writing out of his own cultural moment”
Belsey (revenge)
revenge exists on a margin between justice and time
Adelmen (H)
Hamlets goal is “not to avenge his father but to remake his mother”
Paster (H)
Hamlet swings between “melancholic lethargy” and “ineffectual rage”
Neely (O) (madness)
“Ophelia’s madness differs from Hamlet’s because of gender differences”
Kirsch (madness)
“Hamlet’s grief is intensified by the functional loss of his mother and the inability to mourn his father”
Nardo (madness)
“Hamlet’s feigned madness is how he escapes true madness”
Charney (women)
“through madness, the women on stage can suddenly make a forceful assertion of their being”
