hamlet critics Flashcards
Harry Levin
“most problematic play ever written”
William Hazlitt
“it is we who are Hamlet”
Freudian Critics
Hamlets desire to kill Claudius comes from his jealousy that he killed his father and married his mother.
T.S. Eliot
“an artistic failure”
Harold Bloom
“Hero-Villain”
Lisa Jardine
Polonius “fatally confuses privacy with affairs of state”
Emma Smith
“psychic doubling”
A.C Bradley foils
“a curious parallelism”
T.S Eliot on Gertrude
“negative and insignificant”
A.C Bradley Sidekick Quote
Hamlet has “no other figure of tragic proportions”
Graham Holderness
“insanity could express deep and important truths”
Healy and Underwood 2015
Polonius is “self-assured, sly, devious, immoral”
John Dover Wilson 1935
“we are never perfectly certain as to just who or what the ghost is”
