Early Critics Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
Collier (1698)
A
“[the depiction of Ophelia is] lewd and unreasonable”
2
Q
Voltaire (1748)
A
“A vulgar and barbarous drama…but some sublime passages, worthy of the greatest genius”
3
Q
Johnson (1765)
A
“The gratification which would arise from the destruction of a usurper and murderer is abated by the untimely death of Ophelia…the harmless and the pious”
4
Q
Coleridge (1813)
A
“[he] is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without”
