Hamlet Critics Names Flashcards
‘If any theoretical pressures existed to shape Shakespeare’s understanding of tragedy they came more from medieval articulations of the genre than classical ones’
David Scott Kaston
‘Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering’
David Scott Kaston
‘Hamlet is privileged in madness to say things about the corruption of human nature’
Maynard Mack
‘Spying is endemic’
Vardi
‘Polonius is at the heart of the corrupt state”
Vardi
‘Acts sensibly, talks foolishly’
Hazlitt
‘Hamlet was an unusually morally defined man for Shakespeare’
Richardson
‘No play at the end of which the hero remains alive is, in the full Shakespearean sense, a tragedy’
A.C Bradley
‘Hamlet never promises to revenge, only to remember’
John Kerrigan
‘Hamlet manages to achieve his revenge only when he can avenge his mother’s death, not his father’s’
Janet Adelman
‘Hamlet is more responsible for her madness than Polonius’ death’
Carroll Camden
‘Hamlet is not a character marked by strength of will or even passion, but by refinement of thought and sentiment’
Hazlitt
‘Claudius is able to manipulate people even the ones he claims to love’
David Bevington
‘It is only in the love tragedies that the heroine is as much the centre of the action as the hero’
A.C Bradley
‘Madness is to some degree a punishment or doom’
Maynard Mack
