Critics Flashcards

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Sagar

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‘The mouse trap proves nothing’

Mother ‘nymphomania’ - uncontrollable/excessive sexual desire of woman

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Greenbalt

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‘The play should be over by the end of the first act’ - Hamlet doesn’t act

‘Hamlet’
‘Hamnet’
Shakespeare son died when 12. No eulogy

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Coleridge

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‘Smack of hamlet in himself’

Outcast of society
Fell out of place w society

Saw intellectual man which made action impossible

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Bradley

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‘In hamlet though we have a villain, he is a small one

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Wilson

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‘Critics misunderstand [the nunnery episode] because in sympathy with Opehlia… forgotten that it is not Hamlet who ‘repelled’ her but she him’

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Knight

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‘Hamlet is an inhuman’

‘He is feared by those around him’

‘They are always trying to find what is wrong with him’

‘He is a creature of another world’

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7
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David tenant

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Knows about spying

Surveillance cameras

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8
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Mel Gibson

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Oedipus theory - pulling clothes off in closet scene

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9
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Oliver production

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Cliff - what if it tempt you towards the cliff

Cut our 7th soliloquy - expendable

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Feminist

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Gertrude = powerful - chose her husband and widow - stays in royal court

BUT

Gertrude’s sexuality constantly referenced

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Passion v reason

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Late 1960- too passionate too angry. Hamlet wants blood

Romantics (Coleridge 1880s)
Smack of hamlet in himself

Bradley- 20th century - Hamlets delay was he was unable to cope with being in position he’s in

Lewis - mid 1990s - mystery of why he hesitates

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Feminist changes

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Collier - criticise Ophelia madness and writing her immodest was unessassry and diminishes her character (17th century)

Criticing double standards

Showalter (20 century) her madness is caused by inability to balance own desires with wishes of father brother and hamlet. Argued madness is used to give women a voice

Ophelia is merely a cipher- she’s there purely to give hamlet something to react against, rather than being developed as a character in his own right

Is Gertrude powerful or a strumpet - does it matter. Did she know about killing

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13
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Lewis

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Tragedy is more important than love

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14
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Dudt

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What makes a tragedy so tragic is not that noble individual falls into ruin, but that his fall causes so much suffering in others’

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15
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‘Get thee to a nunnery’

Is he mad

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Yes - tragedy ruining relationship with 1 person he supposedly loved - letters he gave

No - cruel and insulting

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16
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Nunnery scene

Does he know he’s being watched

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Yes - goes into prose after ‘are you honest’

No - mad or he’s taking mothers anger out on her

17
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Ophelia

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She appears in only 5 of the plays 20 scenes - showalter

Only concern is pleasing others - Smith

18
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Gertrude

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‘Negative and insignificant’

19
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Polonius

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A bad parent - Pennington

20
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Claudius

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A good and gentle king - knight

Slimy beast- knights

21
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Hamlet

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By Act 5 he has aged a decade - bloom

Not an individual but an Everyman- Lewis