hamlet ao5 Flashcards
(18 cards)
“When the bad bleed then
is the tragedy good”
contemporary, Thomas Middleton, 1606
“he is no prince but
a tyrant”
contemporary,the education of a christian prince, Erasmus, 1516
“(the devil is) the source of all
ghostly apportions to delude the living”
contemporary, king james v1, 1597
“revenge is
a wild kind of justice”
contemporary, Francis Bacon, 1625
“a vulgar and
barbarous play”
early, Voltaire, 1748
“(depiction of ophelia” is lewd and
unreasonable”
early, Collier, 1698
“poetic
justice”
early, drake, 1699
“seems incapable of
deliberate action”
early, Hazlitt, 1817
“melancholia (is) at the
root of hamlets problems”
modern, A.C Bradley, 1904
“we can imagine hamlets story without Ophelia
but ophelia literally has no story without hanlet”
modern, Lee Edwards, 1979
“(gertrude) clings
to her youth”
modern, Barker, 1946
“(Claudius is) no simple
villain”
modern, Hawks, 1986
“no better than the
dinner whom he is to punish”
modern, Freud, 1900
“laertes denies his
conscious”
Prosser, 20thc
“drowning was a typically
female death”
showalter
“women were everything men were not:
silent, submissive, powerless”
Belsey
“(Gertrude) is an
unimaginative women”
smith,1983
“Vengeance is mine:
i will repay”
Romans, 12:19
