Hamlet Flashcards
1
Q
P Davison
A
“Hamlet’s humour is properly to be termed wit…a mark of his intellectual superiority”
2
Q
D Bevington
A
“ Shakespeare’s way of humanising his revenge is to present a Hamlet who is thoughtful, introspective, witty, capable of enduring friendships ,deeply moved by the need for human affection…and philosophically inquisitive”
3
Q
Janette Dillon
A
‘Both Hamlet and the play as a whole are obsessed by the idea of performance.’
4
Q
Samuel Johnson
A
‘Of the feigned madness of Hamlet there appears no adequate cause, for he does nothing which he might not have done with the reputation of sanity.’ Disagree.
5
Q
Samuel Johnson
A
Hamlet ‘plays the madman most, when he treats Ophelia with so much rudeness, which seems to be useless and wanton cruelty.’
