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Flashcards by kit-kat-98, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kit-kat-98
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| Question | Answer |
| SHAKESPEARE HAMLET CRITICS | The Play: |
| KERMODE | "Although Hamlet is an extremely active, energetic play, it does move forward slowly" "Not only Hamlet, but his play delays" |
| VOLTAIRE | "Vulgar & barbarous tragedy" |
| DR . JOHNSON | Praised Hamlet for the "variety" |
| QUOTES ABOUT HAMLET | ... |
| BLOOM | "The hero-villain" "more Hamlets than actors to play them" by act 5 "aged a decade" |
| M. PENNINGTON | "Shakespeare's character could be almost anything" |
| FILM | "A man who couldn't make up his mind" |
| K. MURI | "many different explanations for his procrastination" |
| C. S. LEWIS | "Not an individual, but every man" |
| T. S. ELLIOT | "Dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible" |
| BRADLEY | "In consequence, he grew morbid and melancholy" not killing Claudius but killing Polonius = "turning point" |
| S. BOLT | "A passionate avenger, a ironic critic and an actor considering his part" (In all soliloquies) |
| A. C. BLOCK | "Tries to feel like Fortinbras... adopts the same manner" |
| CRITICS FOR CLAUDIUS | ... |
| L. C. KNIGHTS | "Unctuous verse rhythms" (Extremely flattering/way of word) |
| B. OVERTON | "For Hamlet, Claudius has literally adulterer the Kingdom ... infected the state" |
| R. D. ALTICK | "Claudius' evil has corrupted the whole of Denmark" |
| C. STOCKTON | "Clearly the antagonist" |
| G. W. KNIGHT | "Good and gentle King" |
| QUOTES ABOUT GERTRUDE | ... |
| J. D. WILSON | "Rotten through and through" |
| G. F. BRADBY | "ambiguous mortality whom we can never fully know" |
| A. MABILLARD | "her sexuality turns Hamlet so violently against her" "Does what she can to help Hamlet" "Only when he (Hamlet) tells her (sins) she understands her actions to be wrong" "Now his Queen and remains loyal" "Underlying propensity for goodness that redeems her" |
| CRITICS FOR OPHELIA | .... |
| E. HAMANA | "Suffers a series of patriarchal oppressions" |
| H. BROWN | ( as Hamlet increases ) "Ophelia declines, becoming more and more of a puppet for Polonius and ultimately falling when Polonius no longer controls her strings" "No identity as a woman, allows herself to be moulded by men" |
| G. DANE | "Completely circumscribed by men" "Shaped to conform to external demands, to reflect other's desires" |
| R. SMITH | "Only concern is pleasing others" |
| T. OSHIO | "Inability to express herself through words" |
| NEELY | "acts of the madness Hamlet feigns" |
| S. BIERMAN | (Suicide - flowers etc) "Serves as representation of the natural worlds with the construct of the court at Denmark" |
| J. GREEN | "Madness has method" "Actively chooses suicide" |
| CRITICS FOR POLONIUS | ... |
| E. OAKES | "Overly concerned with his social/political position" |
| C. STIMPSON | "Accomplishes what he must - management of a small but tricky political state with masks, games and traps" |
| M. PENNINGTON | "bad parent" "between knave and fool, most performances fall to one side or the other" (Knave = dishonest) |
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