Hamlet AO5 Flashcards
1
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- ‘Fortinbras’s boldness contrasts with Hamlet’s stretched-out neurotic feelings of unmanliness’
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Joe Sutcliffe
2
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- ‘I’ve always been puzzled by Hamlet’s clearly bogus assertion that he has been in “continual practice” at fencing: here it becomes a conscious joke about his palpable unfitness and secret death wish.’
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Michael Billington review, Icke’s (Scott) Hamlet.
3
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- ‘subway-artist antic disposition’
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Dominic Cavendish
4
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- ‘private vengeance was abhorrent to Elizabethans as anti-Christian and anti-social’
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Phillip Edwards
5
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- Hamlet ‘devotes itself to the whole issue of the legitimacy of violence and the responsibility of the individual in pursuing justice’
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Phillip Edwards
6
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- The ghost’s advice to Hamlet, ‘taint not thy mind’, seems facile given he is inciting Hamlet to damnable murder.
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7
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- ‘the nature of the Ghost is intended to be an open question’
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Nigel Alexander
8
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- ‘Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death’
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Phillip Edwards
9
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Hamlet’s problems were caused by his unconscious wish to supplant his father and lie with his mother.
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- Ernest Jones in 1910 argued
10
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- ‘quite the sweetest’
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Dominic Cavendish/ Paapa Essiedu.
11
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- ‘combines brooding introversion with coltish command, intelligence with grace’
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Dominic Cavendish/Paapa Essiedu.
12
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- Andrew Scott’s Hamlet (Robert Icke’s version) and Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Hamlets transcend the productions that surround them.’
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Michael Billington
13
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- ‘But Scott’s Hamlet is most memorable for his charm, self-mockery and ability to speak directly to the audience.’
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Michael Billington review, Icke’s (Scott) Hamlet.
14
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Hamlet is a ‘tragedy of thought’.
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- A. W. Schlegel’s Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, delivered in 1808.
15
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Hamlet ‘speaks more superficially than he acts.’
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- Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) found that
