Hamlet Flashcards

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How did the romantic critics feel about Ophelia

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apparently the less that was said about her the better

William Hazlitt said that she was a “flower too soon faded”

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What is Hamlet’s full title?

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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.

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Which acts do not take place in the castle of Elsinore?

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Act 4 scene 4 and Act 5 scene 1-serves well and truly as a microcosm

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What is a translation of Gertrude’s name?

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Very faithful from Old German gerdraut-which questions Gertrude’s faithfulness that plagues Hamlet for the rest of the play

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What did William Hazlitt say about Hamlet?

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Hamlet is a little of the hero as a man can be

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What might act 4 be called?

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Ophelia’s act

she is the emotional centre of interest within this

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What act supplies important info about Hamlet’s relationship to Ophelia?

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Act one scene 3

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Why does the Oedipus complex account for Hamlet’s failure to get revenge?

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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.

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What is one of the attractions of a Freudian view of Hamlet?

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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

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What did Freud’s psychoanalysis accounts do for the play?

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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”.

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How much of most Shakespeare original texts do most screenplays of Shakespeare’s original film provide

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40-60%

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What does Bradley say about Ophelia?

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“Her whole character is that of simple unselfish affection”

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