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Hamlet critics Flashcards

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  • Herman Ulrici
  • use for theme of death
  • souls
    “regard for ..
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“Regard for the eternal salvation of his soul …. to halt and consider” Herman Ulrici

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  • David Farr
  • death and loss
    “inability to …
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“Inability to deal with death and loss.”David Far

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

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  • Wilson Knight
  • religion and death
    “hamlet is a figure of …
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“Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death.”Wilson Knight

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  • Middleton Murry
  • death and religion
    “with the setting of …
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with their settings of heaven, hell, purgatory” - Midilton Murry

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  • Ernest Jones
  • death and revenge
    “can can’t kill…
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Hamlet can’t kill Claudius without killing himself”

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  • Phillip Edwards
  • ghost, religion, death
  • The ambiguity of ..
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“The ambiguity of the ghost is of fundamental importan”

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  • Marilyn French
  • g and r
  • Bertayal
    “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifce..
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sacrifice the bond of human friendship to a coial propriety”

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  • Richard Altick
  • corruption, betrayal and evil
  • Claudius’ evil has
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f Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark

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Rebecca Smith

  • Gertrude
  • sex and betrayal
  • “a sensual,
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“a sensual, deceitful woman”

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Kay Stanton

  • the women
  • bertral and love
  • Getrude chose a brother
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Gertrude chose a brother over a dead Hamlet; Ophelia chooses a father over a living Hamlet.”

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AC Bradley

  • betrysl
  • love
  • psion
  • madness
  • “hamlets whole mind is..
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Hamlet’s whole mind is poisonedby the actions of his mother

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  • Knight
    -evil and betrayal
    “hamlet is an element…
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“Hamlet is an element of evil in the state of Denmark” - Knight

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  • John Hunt
  • revenge and betryal
    “in order to act the part of a revenger …
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In order to act the part of the revenger, he must become a bloody villain himself - John Hunt

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  • Andrew Hull
  • Horatio
    “the most under
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the most under appreciated character in the play”.

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  • Johnson
  • creulty and compassion
    “hamlet is good but
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Hamlet is good but shows moments of wanton cruelty

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  • Edwards
  • on Opheila and cruelty
  • “persistently..
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persistently cruel to Ophelia - Edwards

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  • Samual Taylor Coleridge
  • mp;ulsvess
  • “hamlet is obliged to act ..
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“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”

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L.L Schuking

  • emotions and compassion
  • “hamlet cannot be …
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“Hamlet cannot be comprehended except as a study of emotion”

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Goethe
- compassion
“hamlet is of pure

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“Hamlet is of pure, noble and most moral nature”Goethe

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johnson
- revenge
“hamlet is more of a

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“hamelt is more of a intrument then and agent of revenge

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Colerridge
- revenge and action
“sensitive man ..

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sensitive man paralyzed into inaction by the sheer capacity for thought”

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Mallarme
- doubt
“the black presence

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“ The black presence of this doubter causes the poison”

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  • julliet flemming
  • doubt and thought
    “the more a man thinks…
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“the more a man thinks, the less he acts, and the more intellectually heroic he beocmes”

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  • M. Patrick
  • political
    “a good king must
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a good king must be a good actor

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  • Richard hardy
  • claudius
  • sulviance
    “Claudius and Polonius must spy ..
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Claudius and Polonius must spy on Hamlet because he represents a political threat to the kingdom.”

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-Machiavelli
- political and rolling
- clauduis
“a ruler should perform..

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“A ruler should perform any action that preserves and strengthens his power, regardless of its morality” -

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  • Wilson Knight
  • cladius
  • good
    “Claudius is a good king…
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Claudius is a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime. Wilson Knight

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  • Samual Coleridge
  • manipulation
  • power
    “cluaduis is an opportunist
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Claudius is an opportunist - he uses Polonius’ murder & Laertes’ grief as a part of his plot against Hamlet” - Samual

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  • Calderwood
  • revenge
    “hamlets killing of Claudius
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“Hamlet’s killing of Claudius is an act of restorative destruction” - Calderwood

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