Friendship/ Loyalty Flashcards
Robert C Evans
‘Who is there?’ Epitomises the whole play. Not only does Bernardo want to know whether this thing is a friend or a foe, he wants to know why they are there, are their intentions friendly?
John Gielgud horrid creatures
‘R+G are horrible creatures really’
John Gielgud
‘All people around hamlet are second rate, hamlet hates second rate people’
Richard burton
‘I can only think that they were very nodding acquaintances, R+G doing most of the nodding’
Bradshaw
‘R+G are never guilty of the betrayal Hamlet accuses them of, his mind and judgement are deranged by his loathing of Claudius’
Richard Burtons Hamlet
Points and sneers when R and G laugh at his jokes
David Warner’s Hamlet
Happy enough until he asks why R and G are in Elsinore
Gervinus
Horatio only observes never acts
Hudson
Horatio is very noble moves very quietly through the play
Bradshaw
Hamlet is eloquent about his own thoughts and feelings but rarely considers the thoughts and feelings of others’