Hamlet Critics Flashcards
Knight
“Excellent diplomat and King”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Natural carelessness of innocence”
“The soliloquy of Ophelia, which follows, is the perfection of love - so exquisitely unselfish”
“Irritable account for a certain harshness in him”
Showalter
“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language”
Rogers
“The ideal female is cherished for her youth, beauty and purity”
T.S Eliot
“The opening scene of Hamlet is as well constructed as that of any play ever written”
Aristotle
“The aim of tragedy is to arouse sensations of pity and fear”
Van Goethe
“All duties seem holy to Hamlet”
Johnson
“Hamlet is rather an instrument that an agent”
Mack
“Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things about the corruption of human nature”
Hazlitt
“Hamlet seems incapable of deliberate action”
Bradley
“Hamlet’s delay is due to… a from of melancholy”
“Hamlet is a tragedy of thought”
Edwards
“We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”
Swinbourne
“Translated into violent revulsion against Women”
Mabillard
“Claudius is not a monster, he is morally weak”
Arnold
“Claudius’ soliloquy gives the impression of rhetorical pageantry rather than sincere contrition”
