Horatio AO5 Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
1500’s-1600’s trend
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needed for confirmation of the Ghost
2
Q
the Pope (1700’s)
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‘fine character of friendship’
3
Q
Hudson (Victorian)
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‘Horatio is one of the very noblest and most beautiful of Shakespeare’s characters’
4
Q
Olivier’s film (mid 1900’s - Psychoanalyst interp)
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camera is often on Horatio in the ‘Murder of Gonzago’ (Mousetrap), to symbolise responses of the audience
Wooland played Horatio with grand emotion
5
Q
Spaeth (early 20th C)
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‘Hamlet’s only trusted friend’
‘his inmost being that he lets only Horatio see’
6
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Dowden (20th C)
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argues how Horatio’s evenness of temper is a solid ground to Hamlet
