Critics (thought) Flashcards
Neoclassicism
17th century
Thomas Rymer
Neoclassicist
Jeremy Collier
Neoclassicist
John Evelyn
Neoclassicist
Voltaire
Psychoanalytical
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Romantic
William Hazlitt
Romantic
Geothe
Romantic
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalytical
Avi Erlich
Psychoanalytical
A. C. Bradley
Psychoanalytical
T. S. Eliot
Psychoanalytical
Elaine Showalter
Feminist
Carolyn Heilbrun
Feminist
Stephen Greenblatt
Historicist
Alan Sinfield
Historicist
Catherine Belsey
Marxist
What was 17th century criticism?
Neoclassicism
What was 18th-19th century criticism?
Romanticism
What was 20th century criticism?
Psychoanalytical criticism
What did neo-classicists want to see?
Tragic decorum
What was tragic decorum?
Plot - single plot line.
Characters - had to be polite.
Language - no crude words.
Moral focus.
What did romantic critics like Coleridge think?
That Hamlet’s delay was caused by his immense intellect.
What did psychoanalytic approaches focus on?
Examining repressed desires.
What did psychoanalytical critics inspire?
Laurence Olivier’s 1947 film and the voice-over soliloquy.
How was the double-standard of gender represented through madness?
Mad men were melancholic, a symptom of an intellectual mind pushed too far, whilst mad women were hysteric and ill.
What does historicism examine?
The play in relation to its social, cultural, political, economic, and religious background.
What did 18th century criticism question?
The play’s morality.
What did psychoanalytical criticism question?
The characters and their minds.
