Hamlet (11-15 reversed) Flashcards
1
Q
“Death is truly the theme of this play”
A
G. Wilson Knight
2
Q
“What is Hamlet? … A colossal Enigma.”
A
Byron
3
Q
“the man who thinks too well”
A
Harold Bloom
4
Q
“Hamlet [is] fundamentally sane.”
A
Dover Wilson
5
Q
Hamlet “mirrors the anxieties of Shakespeare’s England.”
A
Rex Gibson
6
Q
Hamlet struggles to cope with the position he finds himself in, being too caught up in disgust with his mother to take on the role of the traditional revenger.
A
A.C. Bradley
7
Q
“Hamlet’s soul is sick”
A
G. Wilson Knight
8
Q
“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
A
G. Wilson Knight
