Critical Quotes Flashcards
T.S.Eliot
Nothing is superfluous
Jones
“Gertrude is generally too much the dignified Queen”
Lacan
“All Hamlet criticism must be psychological”
Lee Edwards
“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia but Ophelia has literally no story without Hamlet”
Lee Edwards - Ophelia and Laertes
“Incestuous link…between Ophelia and Laertes”
Thorndike
“Revenge is still the dominant motive of the play”
Macdonald - the graves scene
“This is the speech in the play which it is most difficult to get into a sympathetic comprehension”
David Bevington
“Hamlet’s humanity renders him incapable of action”
T.S.Eliot - poetry
“There is no line of poetry which is not justified by its dramatic value”
D. Bevington
“The humanising of Hamlet is the strategy needed to counter he dehumanising thrust of revenge tradition”
Dover Wilson
“He feels his father’s loss not just as a son but as a lover”
D. Wilson
“Hamlet’s conception of Gertrude as an object”
Critic
“They are a pair of faceless automatons”
Jenkins
“The role of the revenger is more capably filled by Laertes”
Wilson Knight
“Good and gentle King”
