Hamlet AO5

Question 1

The earl of Shaftsbury (1700’s)

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praised Hamlet as ‘‘almost one continued moral, a series of deep reflections’

Question 2

The earl of Shaftsbury (1700’s)

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‘most to have affected English hearts and has perhaps been oftenest acted’

Question 3

Goethe (Romantic)

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1st focus on hesitation act
‘‘Amazement and sorrow overwhelm the solitary young man’’

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Hazlitt (Romantic)

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‘’It is we who are Hamlet’’
‘‘His mind sink within him’’

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Coleridge (Romantic)

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‘’we should reflect on the constitution of our own minds’’
‘‘a smack of Hamlet’’ - in himself

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Schlegel (Romantic)

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burden Hamlet faces
‘‘cripples the power of thought’’

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Voltaire (1700’s)

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‘unfit’ to cope with task of revenge

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Romantic trend

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People start to read themselves in Hamlet and how his personality mirrors ourselves

Hamlet was criticised for his insensitivity when dealing with Ophelia

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Henry Irving’s Hamlet (Psychoanalyst)

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volatile and unpredictable, hard to see if madness is real or fake

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Campbell (Psychoanalyst)

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critiques Hamlet for his insensitivity

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Freud (Psychoanalyst)

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‘the repressed wishes of his own childhood realised’

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Garrick’s Hamlet (Victorian)

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overcome by tears when speaking about his father

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Feminist trend

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Hamlet is viewed more as a misogynist

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Modern trend

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Hamlet representing political corruption

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Wilson Knight (Modern)

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‘like an acid eating into metal’

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John Dover Wilson (modern)

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first to break psychoanalyst and solves his inconsistencies
‘Hamlet is a character in a play, not in history’

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Olivier’s film (modern)

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introduced a bed to the closet scene
Used Olivier for Hamlet and the ghost, to show psychological elements of the play

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Godwin’s RSC production (modern 21st)

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Hamlet’s antic disposition presented through paint, colourful clothes and artwork mixing graffiti + child-like images

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Eyre’s production (modern)

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no ghost, Hamlet is psychologically possessed
- opening scene confirming Ghost’s reality is cut

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Heyme’s production (modern)

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television monitors, emphasising contradictions in Hamlet’s mind

Question 20

Daniels’ Hamlet (modern)

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Gertrude and Hamlet represent the Romantic old world of the court,

compared to Blessed’s bombastic Claudius and his insensitive court