Hamlet Flashcards
How did the romantic critics feel about Ophelia
apparently the less that was said about her the better
William Hazlitt said that she was a “flower too soon faded”
What is Hamlet’s full title?
The tragical history of Hamlet,the prince of Denmark
this immediately suggests to an Elizabethan audience that they play is about the death of a noble hero.
Which acts do not take place in the castle of Elsinore?
Act 4 scene 4 and Act 5 scene 1-serves well and truly as a microcosm
What is a translation of Gertrude’s name?
Very faithful from Old German gerdraut-which questions Gertrude’s faithfulness that plagues Hamlet for the rest of the play
What did William Hazlitt say about Hamlet?
Hamlet is a little of the hero as a man can be
What might act 4 be called?
Ophelia’s act
she is the emotional centre of interest within this
What act supplies important info about Hamlet’s relationship to Ophelia?
Act one scene 3
Why does the Oedipus complex account for Hamlet’s failure to get revenge?
it explains that he hesitates to kill Claudius because he identifies too closely with his uncle as a man who acted out of Hamlet’s secret desire,mainly to kill his father and marry his mother.
What is one of the attractions of a Freudian view of Hamlet?
it seems to account for the universal appeal of the play.Hamlet touches so deeply because it persenates with the the deepest stratum of the unconsciousness
What did Freud’s psychoanalysis accounts do for the play?
helped rescue Hamlet from earlier criticism from the liked of TS Eliot and G Wilson who found the play a failure.Hamlet’s actions even led Eliot to the conclusion that “so far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece,the play is most certainly an artistic failure”.
How much of most Shakespeare original texts do most screenplays of Shakespeare’s original film provide
40-60%
What does Bradley say about Ophelia?
“Her whole character is that of simple unselfish affection”
