Hamlet (1-5 reversed) Flashcards
1
Q
“the fruit of the imagination of a drunken savage”
A
Voltaire
2
Q
“useless and wanton cruelty” – Hamlet’s treatment of Ophelia.
A
Dr Samuel Johnson
3
Q
“without the strength of nerve which makes the hero”
A
Goethe
4
Q
“Hamlet has no firm belief”
A
A. W. Schlegel
5
Q
“It is we who are Hamlet”
A
William Hazlitt
6
Q
Hamlet is a “tragedy of thought”
A
A. W. Schlegel
7
Q
“Hamlet is…rather an instrument than an agent”
A
Dr Samuel Johnson
8
Q
“too horrible to be read or to be uttered” (Hamlet’s third soliloquy)
A
Dr Samuel Johnson
