Critics Flashcards

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Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

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(Not a direct quote) Argues that the Ghost represents a common fear (among the living) of being completely forgotten after death.

Hamlet is not afraid of death… RENAISSANCE MAN… as different from the rest.

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Benedict Cumberbatch on own production

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“the youth seem to suffer at the hands of the generation above them”

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3
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Von Goethe: Religion

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“All duties seem holy for Hamlet”

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Bradley: Religion

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“Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty”

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5
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Samuel Johnson: Hamlet’s character

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“Hamlet is…rather an instrument than an agent”

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Coleridge: Hamlet’s character

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“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”

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Wilson Knight: Claudius as King

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“He is..a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime.”

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Wilson Knight: Hamlet

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“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”

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Belsey: Revenge

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“Revenge is not justice. It is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice”

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Belsey: Justice

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“Revenge is always in excess of justice”

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11
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Belsey: Morals

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“Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime”

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Wilson Knight: Hamlet’s Morality

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“He [Hamlet] is in fact the poison in the veins of the community”

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13
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Alexander: Vengeance

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“The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct”

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14
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Alexander: Audience Reaction

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“The audience are entertained because they are asked to see, feel and understand”

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15
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Rebecca Smith: Polonius

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“Polonius seems to love his children […] His means of actions, however, are totally corrupt”

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16
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Rebecca Smith: Polonius and Ophelia’s relationship

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“Trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”

17
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Marilyn French: R&G

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“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a coial propriety”

18
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Showalter: Ophelia’s character

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“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language”

19
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Brucher: Revenge and Justice

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“Revengers create their own civil justice”

20
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Sir Herbert Tree: Comedy

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“Sanity is humour.”

21
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Jonathon Dollimore: Corruption

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“Articulates a crisis in the decay of a traditional social order in England”

22
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Schofield

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“is morally empty”