Hamlet critics- Hamlet Flashcards
(16 cards)
What does Samuel Johnson say and what century?(3)
-18th Century
- ” A useless and wanton cruelty” - treatment of Ophelia
2.” Hamlet is rather… an instrument than a agent
3.” of The feigned madness of Hamlet, there appears no adequate cause, for he does nothing which he might not have done with the reputation of sanity”
What does Wilson Knight say about Hamlet and what century?(3)
-20th Century
1.” Hamlet takes delight in cruelty”
2.” an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
3.” He [Hamlet} is in fact the poison in the veins of the community”
What does William Hazlitt say about Hamlet and what century?(3)
-19th Century
1.”There is no harshness in his nature. He is the most amiable of misanthropes”
2.” Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be”
3.” because he cannot have his revenge perfect… he denies it altogether”
What does A.C Bradley say about Hamlet and what century? (2)
-20th Century
1.Hamlet’s speculative habit… hinders action”
2.”this melancholy is very different than insanity”
What does Coleridge say and what century? (2)
-19th Century
1.”Great, enormous , intellectual activity”
2.’Hamlet is a man incapable of acting because he thinks too much’
3.’Hamlet is brave and careless of death, but he…loses the power of action in the energy of resolve.’
What does Van Goethe say about Hamlet and what century ? (2)
-18th Century
1..“lovely,pure,noble and most moral nature”
2.”All duties seem holy for Hamlet”
What does Josipovici say about Hamlet and what century? (1)
-21st Century
1.” Hamlet is a merge of the tragic hero and the clown figure
What does Voltaire say about Hamlet and what century? (1)
1..”Hamlet becomes crazy in the second act, and his mistress becomes crazy in the third”
18th century
What does Richard Harvey say about Hamlet and what century?
-17th C
-‘The problem isn’t with Hamlet’s inability to act.’
What does Sigmund Freud say about Hamlet and what century
-20th C
1.-‘Hamlet is far from being represented as a person incapable of taking any action’
What does Stanley Wells say about Hamlet?
-20th C
1)”Hamlet was in love with his mother and inhibited from killing his rival”
What does Gardner say about Hamlet?
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-Gardner: Hamlet’s agony of mind and indecision are precisely the things which differentiate him from that smooth, swift plotter, Claudius, and from the coarse, unthinking Laertes, ready to dare damnation and cut his enemy’s throat in a church”
What does Jones say about Hamlet?
-20th C
-“Shakespeare certainly never intended us to regard Hamlet as insane”
-Hamlet cannot carry out the murder of Claudius because “he identifies with him too much”. This is because Claudius has “fulfilled precisely Hamlets own Oedipal fantasies”.
What does John Kerrigan say about Hamlet?
-21st c
-”Hamlet never promises to revenge only to remember”
What does C.S Lewis say about Hamlet and what century?
-20th
-“Hamlet is haunted , not by a physical fear of dying, but of being dead”
What does Crawford say about Hamlet and what century?
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-“Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and disconcert the king and his attendants”
