Hamlet condensed critics Flashcards
(20 cards)
Hamlets _ to play a _ character
Hamlet’s unwillingness to play a stock character - Tanya Pollard
themes - performance, revenge, theatre, madness
The _ Ophelia drowns in a _ of _
The Romantic Ophelia drowns in a surfeit of feelings - Elaine Showalter
themes - women, death, tragic waste, grief
Polonius is nothing more that a _ _
Polonius is nothing more than a stock character - Richard Vardy
themes - espionage, performance
Hamlet’s sense of _ is _
Hamlet’s sense of stasis is psychological - Emma Smith
themes - performance, madness, revenge (inaction versus action)
The real ghost of the _ is its _ past
The real ghost of the play is its theatrical past - Emma Smith
themes - performance, past
Hamlet polices the _ between performance and _
Hamlet polices the boundary between performance and reality - Gillian Woods
themes - performance, theatre, madness
In the play with a play, we are kept at a _ distance from the _
In the play within a play we are kept at a frustrating distance from the truth - Gillian Woods
themes - truth, secrecy, performance, theatre
Gertrude’s death provides a _ _ to Hamlet and Claudius’ rivalry
Gertrude’s death provides a gory backdrop to Hamlet and Claudius’ rivalry - Tamara Tubb
themes - death, women, tragic waste, grief , revenge, corrupt court
Hamlet’s _ is most at war with _
Hamlet’s conscience is most at war with itself - Andrew Brown
themes - performance, madness, appearance versus reality, action and inaction
The _ of Hamlet is the possibilities that _ with him
The tragedy of Hamlet is the possibilities that die with him - Andrew Brown
themes - death, revenge, corrupt court
Hamlet is aware that he is a _ _
Hamlet is aware that he is a theatrical cliche - Kiernan Ryan
themes - theatre, performance, revenge, family relationships (expectations)
The _ debate of revenge
The philosophical debate of revenge - Kate Baty
themes - problematised revenge genre, revenge, inaction versus action
Shakespeare constructs Gertrude through the _ of _
Shakespeare constructs Gertrude through the eyes of Hamlet - Kate Baty
themes - women (female condemnation), family relationships, corruption, personal and private
Chaucers _ Griselda
Chaucer’s patient Griselda (role of the subservient women in Shakespearean literature)
themes - anything to do with women
Who painted Ophelia ?
John Everett Millias - 1852
provides an insight into Ophelia’s death that we only hear about in the play
themes (Ophelia related) - death, madness, women
her _ is the only sane response to her _ predicament
Her madness is the only sane response to her insane predicament - Minnie Hampton
themes (Ophelia related) - madness, women, performance
Hamlet is unable to view _ with pure and _ love
Hamlet is unable to view Ophelia with pure and untainted love - Minnie Hampton
themes - corrupt court, madness, women, death
Power and _ trump family values in _ Denmark
Power and politics trump family values in Claudius’ Denmark - Richard Vardy
themes - corrupt court, power, relationships
Gertrude is _ through the _ swirl of father son _
Gertrude is marred through the putrid swirl of father-son corruption - Lilla Grindlay
themes - women, corrupt court, relationships
Deputy _ father
Deputy mini father (Laertes) - Harriet Walters
