More… Flashcards
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Hirshfeld
‘Hamlet’s inwardness presents a danger to the political nation’
Steven Mullaney
“the delay casts doubt on the authenticity of his own grief” hence his turmoil in ‘what a rogue and peasant slave’
Self-spying
“The player’s speech thus functions as a means for Hamlet to spy on himself.” Heather Hirschfeld
unimpressed with ending
Charlotte Lennox = ‘he seems to punish his Uncle rather for his own death”
2bon2b
“a heap of absurdities” - Tobias Smollett
Hamlet’s character
Steevens ‘immoral tendency of his character’
Greenblatt
“corrosive inwardness”
Von Goethe
“A lovely pure and most moral nature which without the strength of nerve which forms a hero sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away”
Philip Edwards on POLONIUS
“ By unwittingly killing Polonius Hamlet brings about his own death.”.
Harry Levin - persona
‘Hamlet stands in need of a new persona…as to speak his mind with impunity.’
Hamana - Ophelia
opehlia suffers a series of patriarchal oppressions”
Showalter
… female insanity and female sexuality are inextricably intertwined.”
Stanton - Ophelia
“only in death does Ophelia escape the whore image”
Pragati - Gertrude
“Hamlet develops a deep seeded hatred for women from seeing his mother’s hasty marriage”
Dall - Gertrude
“Gertrude’s actions and body contribute far more to the story than her character”
Tennenhouse
To possess Gertrude’s body is to possess the state
Claudius love of Gertrude
Smith: ÒAlthough he clearly loves her- Claudius shares the HamletsÕ conception of Gertrude as an object. She is possessed as one of the effects of his actions
Rex Gibson on Claudius
“Claudius’ astute & businesslike command!
Philip Edwards
‘Hamlet’s reaction to the ghost is like a religious conversion. He wipes away all previous knowledge all previous values and baptises himself a new man’
Belsey
Revenge is always in excess of justice
Bacon
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice”
Leverenz
“Hamlet’s disguist at the feminine passivity in himself is translated into violent revulsion against women and into his brutal behaviour towards Ophelia”
Maynard Mack
“interrogative mood”
Von Schlegel
“the tragedy of thought”
