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Who said: “All duties seem holy for Hamlet”
Von Goethe
Who said: “Hamlet is…rather an instrument than an agent”
Samuel Johnson
Who said: “Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”
Coleridge
Who said: “Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
Wilson Knight
Who said: “Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime”
Belsey
Who said: “The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct”
Alexander
Who said: “Polonius trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”
Rebecca Smith
Who said: “Revengers create their own civil justice”
Brucher
Who said: “The corruption articulates a crisis in the decay of a traditional social order in England”
Jonathon Dollimore
Who said: “The ghost may be a demon tempting him to murder an innocent man”
Wiggins
Who said: “Hamlet’s principal concern is not revenge but a desire to purify his mother”
Adelman
Who said: “Hamlet is the prince of philosophical speculators”
Hazlitt
Who said: “Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death”
Wilson Knight
Who said: “Hamlet is an extremely active, indeed feverishly energetic play, it does move forward slowly”
Kermode
Who said: Polonius is “ made palatable by the fact that he is funny
Pennington
