hamlet critics Flashcards
1
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Harry Levin
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“most problematic play ever written”
2
Q
William Hazlitt
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“it is we who are Hamlet”
3
Q
Freudian Critics
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Hamlets desire to kill Claudius comes from his jealousy that he killed his father and married his mother.
4
Q
T.S. Eliot
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“an artistic failure”
5
Q
Harold Bloom
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“Hero-Villain”
6
Q
Lisa Jardine
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Polonius “fatally confuses privacy with affairs of state”
7
Q
Emma Smith
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“psychic doubling”
8
Q
T.S Eliot on Gertrude
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“negative and insignificant”
9
Q
Graham Holderness
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“insanity could express deep and important truths”
10
Q
Healy and Underwood 2015
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Polonius is “self-assured, sly, devious, immoral”
11
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John Dover Wilson 1935
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“we are never perfectly certain as to just who or what the ghost is”
