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'HAMLET' CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS Flashcards

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Von G_______ : Religion
“All duties…”

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Van Goethe : “All duties seem holy for Hamlet”.

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Br_______ : Religion
“Hamlet is unable to carry out the…”

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Bradley : “Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty, imposed by divine authority, of punishing an evil man by death”.

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Samuel J_________ : Hamlet’s Character
“Hamlet is…rather an….”

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Johnson : “Hamlet is…rather an instrument than an agent”.

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Co________ : Hamlet’s Character
“Hamlet is obliged to act on…”

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Coleridge : “Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”.

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Wilson K_______ : Claudius is a Good King
“Claudius, as he appears in the play, is not a…”

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Knight : “Claudius, as he appears in the play, is not a criminal… He is… a good and gentle King, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime”.

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Wilson K_______ : Hamlet’s Character
“Hamlet is an element…”

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Knight : “Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark”.

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Al_________ : Human Aggression
“The play does not offer any conclusions about what is…”

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Alexander : “The play does not offer any conclusions about what is the right response to the questions it poses about human aggression”

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B_________ : Revenge
“Revenge is not justice…”

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Besley : “Revenge is not justice. It is rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice”.

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B___________ : Morals
“Revenge exists on a margin…”

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Besley : “Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime”.

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A___________ : Vengeance
“The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a…”

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Alexander : “The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct”.

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A____________ : Audience Reaction
“The audience are entertained because…”

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Alexander : “The audience are entertained because they are asked to see, feel and understand a little more about the hidden springs of action”.

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Rebecca S_______ : Plononius’ Character
“Polonius seems to love…”

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Smith : “Polonius seems to love his children; he seems to have the welfare of the Kingdom in mind. His actions, however, are totally corrupt”.

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Rebecca S________ : Polonius and Ophelia’s Relationship
“Trained his daughter to be…”

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Smith : “Trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste and is able to use her as a piece of bait for spying”.

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Marilyn F________ : R&G
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the…”

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French : “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrificie the bond of human friendship to a social property”.

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Sh__________ : Ophelia’s Character
“Ophelia is deprived of…”

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Showalter : “Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language… she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans thought womanish”.

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Bu_______ : Revenge and Justice
“Revengers create…”

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Bucher : “Revengers create their own civil justice”.

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Sir Herbert T_______ : Comedy
“But for humour he should…”

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Sir Herbert Tree : “But for humour he should go mad. Sanity is humour”.

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Jonathon Do__________ : Corruption
“Articulates a crisis in the…”

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Dollimore : “Articulates a crisis in the decay of a traditional social order in England”

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‘To be or not to be’ SPEECH :
- David Tennant (200__), he has a…
- Directed by…

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David Tennant, 2009,
- He has a paranoid, wallowing, emotional approach.
- Directed by Doran.

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‘To be or not to be’ SPEECH :
- Kenneth Branagh (199__) Movie.
- Intense… Trying to… Very…

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Kenneth Branagh, (1996) Movie.
- Intense eye-contact. Trying to empower/reassure himself. Very menacing & villainous.

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‘To be or not to be’ SPEECH :
- Andrew Scott (201__)
- Directed by…
- Slight…

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Andrew Scott (2018).
- Directed by Lcke.
- Slight mocking, humorous tone.

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Act 3, Scene 4
- Andrew Scott (201___), DR Lcke.
- Very…
- Hamlet portrayed as ‘…’, Gertrude as ‘…’ and ‘…’.

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Andrew Scott (2018)]
- Very incestuous and intimate.
- Hamlet portrayed as ‘overwrought’, Gertrude as ‘fear’ and ‘motherly connection’.
(KENNETH BRANAGH very incestuous too).

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Emma S________ : Hamlet
“Hamlet’s own instincts are towards…”

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Smith : “Hamlet’s own instincts are towards undoing rather than doing”.

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D______ : Claudius and Hamlet
“To everyone except Hamlet, Claudius is…”

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Danby : “To everyone except Hamlet, Claudius is as good as his predecessor”.

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William H________ : Hamlet’s Inaction
Hamlet is he whose,
“powers of action have been eaten…”

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Hazlitt : “Powers of actions have been eaten up by thought”.

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L.C K________ : Hamlet
“Hamlet cannot break out of the…”

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Knight : “Hamlet cannot break out of the closed circle of loathing and self-contempt”.

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Emma Sm_______ : Gertrude and Hamlet
“Hamlet seems obsessed with…”

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Smith : “Hamlet seems obsessed with Gertrude as a sex object”.

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Jeffery W_______ : Ophelia’s Death
“Trapped in a choice-less existence, Ophelia has no choice but to…”

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Wood : “Trapped in a choice-less existence, Ophelia has no choice but to throw herself into the river to drown”.

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A.C Br________ : Hamlet and Ophelia
“Hamlet was at one time…”

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Bradley : “Hamlet was at one time sincerely in love with Ophelia”.

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Ca_________ : Hamlet
“Melancholy… defeats all his impulses towards…”

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Campbell : “Melancholy… defeats all his impulses towards action and increasingly paralyses his will”.

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Hap_______ : Hamlet
“Hamlet’s form of delay is ‘inertia’, he finds difficulty in…”

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Hapgood : “Hamlet’s form of delay is ‘inertia’, he finds difficulty in starting and coming to a stop”.

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A.C. Br_________ : (Women)
“He can never see Ophelia in…”

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Bradley : “He can never see Ophelia in the same light again: she is a woman, and his mother is a woman”.

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Peter J________ : (Andrew Scot version)
“This is Hamlet living on the…”

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John : “This is Hamlet living on the edge of his emotions”.

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Amy L__________ : (Ophelia)
“Where Hamlet feigns madness, Ophelia actually…”

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Licence : “Where Hamlet feigns madness, Ophelia actually loses her sanity”.

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Gabrielle D________ : Ophelia’s Madness
“Madness releases Ophelia from the enforced…”

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Dane : “Madness releases Ophelia from the enforced repressions of the prescribed roles of daughter, sister, lover, subject”.

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Performance, 1925 Play directed by H.K.A________ :
- Polonius not played as a foolish man but a…
- Ophelia’s madness presented as uncontrolled release of…

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H.K.Ayliff :
- Polonius not played as a foolish man but a sophisticated and cunning politician.
- Ophelia’s madness presented as uncontrolled release of pent up sexual frustrations.

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H_________ : Horatio
“He is at all times…”

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Hudson : “He is at all times superbly self-contained”.

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H_________ : Horatio
“‘He is the medium whereby many of the…”

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Hudson : ‘He is the medium whereby many of the hero’s finest and noblest qualities are revealed to us”.

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D. G. J________ : Horatio & Hamlet
“Hamlet speaks of Horatio in words of…”

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James : “Hamlet speaks of Horatio in words of passionate admiration. How clearly he would like to be Horatio!’

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TS E_________ : Gertrude & Hamlet
“Gertrude and her wrongdoings are out of…”

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ELIOT : “Gertrude and her wrongdoings are out of proportion to the distress we see in her son”.

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H_______ : Laertes
“‘Susceptible to emotional rather than…”

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Hoye : “Susceptible to emotional rather than rational justification”.

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G__________ : Laertes
“__________ Laertes”.

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Gardner : “Unthinking Laertes”.

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Richard A___________ : Claudius
“‘The cunning and lecherousness of…”

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Richard Altick : “The cunning and lecherousness of Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark”.

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(Claudius) Patrick S__________, who played Claudius in 19____ and 200__ claimed he saw Claudius as…

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  • Patrick Stewart, played Claudius in 1980 and 2009 claimed he saw Claudius as a character who ‘commanded respect’, who ‘loved Gertrude deeply…and killed for her sake’.

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