Hamlet Critics: Quote to Critic Flashcards
Van Goethe on religion
‘All duties seem holy for Hamlet’
Alexander Crawford
‘Tragedy is made blacker by the jewels in which it is bestowed’
Rose on Gertrude
‘Gertrude is the scapegoat of the play’
David Leverenz on Ophelia
‘Ophelia is a player trying to respond to multiple directors at once’
Adelman on the Opedius’ Complex
‘Hamlet’s principal concern is not revenge but to purify his mother’
Ernest Jones on the Oedipus’ Complex
Hamlet has ‘a desire to take his father’s place in his mother’s affection’
Worral on grief
‘His grief for his father is more nostalgia than loss’
Belsey on revenge
‘Revenge exists on the margin of justice and crime’
Samuel Johnson on Ophelia
‘Ophelia’s madness fills the heart with tenderness’
Coleridge on impulsivity
‘Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment’
Lee Edwards on Ophelia
‘Ophelia has no story without Hamlet’
Showalter on Ophelia
‘she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethan’s thought womanish’
Dusinbere on Ophelia
‘Ophelia is stifled by the authority of the male world’
A.C Bradley on Hamlet’s depression
‘disgust at life and everything in it, including himself
Ann Thomspon on revenge
‘Hamlet has no straight forward revenge stratergy’
