Contemporary Critics Flashcards
1
Q
Freud (1900)
A
“[Hamlet] is literally no better than the sinner whom he is to punish”
2
Q
Bradley (1904)
A
“There is no tragedy in its expulsion of evil: the tragedy is that this involves the waste of good”
3
Q
Elliot (1919)
A
“The play is an artistic failure”
4
Q
Dusinberre (1975)
A
“Ophelia has no chance to develop an independent conscience of her own”
5
Q
Edward’s (1979)
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“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”
6
Q
Hawkes (1986)
A
“The ghost…dominates…even in his absence”
7
Q
Traub (1988)
A
“Women make men into monsters”
8
Q
Davis
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“he took to logic” - Hamlet
9
Q
Vardy ( 2017)
A
“[Polonius] is nothing more than a stock character, frequently wrong in his judgements, providing a source of comic relief”
