Judgement Critics

Question 1

Adelman

Answer 1

‘the whole play can be seen as a series of attempts on the part of the characters to understand and judge each other and themselves’
‘Our involvement in the shaky business of judging is essential to the play; and it depends on precisely that uncertainty about the characters which so often frustrates us’

Question 2

Shapiro

Answer 2

‘the framing of scenes with onstage moralising commentators makes judging them with any confidence nearly impossible…this scenario will be repeated, as onstage commentators …enter followed by main characters’