Early 20th century

Question 1

problem was the play itself- shakespeare couldn’t associate with the problem he was trying to articulate

Answer 1

T S Eliot

Question 2

Hamlet has an Oedipus complex. He is paralysed by disgust at the thought Claudius did what he wanted to do, 1949

Answer 2

Earnest Jones

Question 3

Hamlets downfall is the result of his ‘intellectual nature and reflective habit (rather) than with yielding to any passion

Answer 3

Bradley

Question 4

pure and noble nature sinks beneath unbearable burden

Answer 4

Goethe

Question 5

looked at role of imagery, shakespeare’s images form clusters. images of sickness, disease symbolise Denmark’s moral corruption

Answer 5

Knight

Question 6

views the play as a poem - Hamlet is not a heroic victim but a sinister presence in Denmark

Answer 6

Knight

Question 7

Hamlet is a picture of alienated mankind struggling to discover meaning

Answer 7

Lewis

Question 8

main theme

Answer 8

trying to find hamlets problem