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Hamlet Critics Flashcards

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‘Revenge exists on the margin between justice and crime.’

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Belsey

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‘All duties seem holy for Hamlet’

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Van Goethe

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‘Laertes is the typical avenger’

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Kitteridge

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‘Hamlet’s principal concern is not revenge but to purify his mother’

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Adelman

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‘Tragedy is made blacker by the jewels of humour in which it is bestowed’

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Alexander Crawford

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‘Gertrude moves throughout Claudius’ shadow’

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Barker

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‘Gertrude is the scapegoat of the play’

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Rose

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‘Ophelia has no story without Hamlet’

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Lee Edwards

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‘Ophelia is a player trying to respond to several directors at once’

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David Levernz

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‘His grief for his dead father seems more nostalgia than loss’

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Worral

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‘Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment’

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Coleridge

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‘Hamlet has no straight forward revenge stratergy’

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Ann Thompson

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‘The melancholy hero, doomed to an awful fate’

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G.H Lewes

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‘Ophelia’s madness fills the heart with tenderness

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Johnson

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‘Claudius has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark’

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Atlick

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‘It is a play about political chicanery’

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Worral

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‘his habitual feeling is one of disgust at life and everything in it, himself included’

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A.C Bradley

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‘she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans thought womanish’

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Showalter

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‘Ophelia is stifled by the authority of the male world’ -

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Dusinbere

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‘Claudius is a good and gentle king’

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Knight

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‘The ghost is the linchpin of the play’

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John Wilson

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‘In Shakespears society, the ideal female is cherished for her youth, beauty and purity’

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Rogers

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‘Hamlets madness is associated with intellectual and imaginative genius but Ophelia’s affliction is erotomania, of love madness’

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Showalter

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‘Ophelia is a play within a play’

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David Leverenz

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‘pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’

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Rebecca Smith

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‘he thinks too much and does too little’

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Williamson

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‘(Horatio) loves Hamlet with all his heart’

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Mabillard

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‘desire to take his father’s place in his mother’s affections’

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Ernest Jones

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‘Of all the unclean ones, Hamlet was the uncleanest. But he accused only the others’

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D.H. Lawrence

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‘pure, noble and most moral nature’

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Van Goethe

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‘a character of ambiguous morality whom we can never fully know’ (on Gertrude)

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G.F. Bradby

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‘disgust at the feminine passivity within himself’

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David Leverenz

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‘Hamlet is an element of evil’

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Wilson Knight

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‘Gertrude is in fact protecting her son from the man who murdered her husband’

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Graf

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‘Gertrude is shallow and a sexual being’

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Mabillard

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