Hamlet critics- Hamlet

Question 1

What does Samuel Johnson say and what century?(3)

Answer 1

-18th Century

1. ” A useless and wanton cruelty” - treatment of Ophelia
   2.” Hamlet is rather… an instrument than a agent
   3.” of The feigned madness of Hamlet, there appears no adequate cause, for he does nothing which he might not have done with the reputation of sanity”

Question 2

What does Wilson Knight say about Hamlet and what century?(3)

Answer 2

-20th Century

1.” Hamlet takes delight in cruelty”
2.” an element of evil in the state of Denmark”
3.” He [Hamlet} is in fact the poison in the veins of the community”

Question 3

What does William Hazlitt say about Hamlet and what century?(3)

Answer 3

-19th Century

1.”There is no harshness in his nature. He is the most amiable of misanthropes”
2.” Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be”
3.” because he cannot have his revenge perfect… he denies it altogether”

Question 4

What does A.C Bradley say about Hamlet and what century? (2)

Answer 4

-20th Century

1.Hamlet’s speculative habit… hinders action”
2.”this melancholy is very different than insanity”

Question 5

What does Coleridge say and what century? (2)

Answer 5

-19th Century

1.”Great, enormous , intellectual activity”
2.’Hamlet is a man incapable of acting because he thinks too much’

Question 6

What does Van Goethe say about Hamlet and what century ? (2)

Answer 6

-18th Century

1..“lovely,pure,noble and most moral nature”
2.”All duties seem holy for Hamlet”

Question 7

What does Jasipovici say about Hamlet and what century? (1)

Answer 7

-20th Century

1.” Hamlet is a merge of the tragic hero and the clown figure

Question 8

What does Voltaire say about Hamlet and what century? (1)

Answer 8

1..”Hamlet becomes crazy in the second act, and his mistress becomes crazy in the third”

18th century