Critics (thought)

Question 1

Neoclassicism

Answer 1

17th century

Question 2

Thomas Rymer

Answer 2

Neoclassicist

Question 3

Jeremy Collier

Answer 3

Neoclassicist

Question 4

John Evelyn

Answer 4

Neoclassicist

Question 5

Voltaire

Answer 5

Psychoanalytical

Question 6

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer 6

Romantic

Question 7

William Hazlitt

Answer 7

Romantic

Question 8

Geothe

Answer 8

Romantic

Question 9

Sigmund Freud

Answer 9

Psychoanalytical

Question 10

Avi Erlich

Answer 10

Psychoanalytical

Question 11

A. C. Bradley

Answer 11

Psychoanalytical

Question 12

T. S. Eliot

Answer 12

Psychoanalytical

Question 13

Elaine Showalter

Answer 13

Feminist

Question 14

Carolyn Heilbrun

Answer 14

Feminist

Question 15

Stephen Greenblatt

Answer 15

Historicist

Question 16

Alan Sinfield

Answer 16

Historicist

Question 17

Catherine Belsey

Answer 17

Marxist

Question 18

What was 17th century criticism?

Answer 18

Neoclassicism

Question 19

What was 18th-19th century criticism?

Answer 19

Romanticism

Question 20

What was 20th century criticism?

Answer 20

Psychoanalytical criticism

Question 21

What did neo-classicists want to see?

Answer 21

Tragic decorum

Question 22

What was tragic decorum?

Answer 22

Plot - single plot line.
Characters - had to be polite.
Language - no crude words.
Moral focus.

Question 23

What did romantic critics like Coleridge think?

Answer 23

That Hamlet’s delay was caused by his immense intellect.

Question 24

What did psychoanalytic approaches focus on?

Answer 24

Examining repressed desires.

Question 25

What did psychoanalytical critics inspire?

Answer 25

Laurence Olivier's 1947 film and the voice-over soliloquy.

Question 26

How was the double-standard of gender represented through madness?

Answer 26

Mad men were melancholic, a symptom of an intellectual mind pushed too far, whilst mad women were hysteric and ill.

Question 27

What does historicism examine?

Answer 27

The play in relation to its social, cultural, political, economic, and religious background.

Question 28

What did 18th century criticism question?

Answer 28

The play's morality.

Question 29

What did psychoanalytical criticism question?

Answer 29

The characters and their minds.