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Hamlet QUOTES
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- 1Shakespeare language techniquesrenaissance plays
nonchalent
juxtaposition, personofication of abstract concepts, catharsis ( releasing/ reliefing emotions) , religious change protentantism , Horatio Sceptical Renaissance Scholar - 2Grigon Kozintsev Innokenti Smortunovskychiming of the bell. Town procedure -announced not by the King but by a soldier. Solilquoy occurs mentally first. Black Knight only reveals eyes. King gets up - claps runs away. Getrude kisses himp- laughs as he drags Poloniouses body away - Ophelia black veil- moth like, cinematic description. Takes of part of her dress. Picks up dead branches and gives them out as flowers - real focus on political backdrop.
Claudius cosncience scene occurs in front of the mirror - Hamlet does not attempt to murder him. - 3Lawrence Olivier HamletThis is a tragedy of the man who could not make up his mind.
soliloquy presented out loud
gentle - go not to my uncles bed.
Kiss - quite intimate
King Crawls to his crown - picks it up
Flachback to river scene- image - Getrudes voice is she at the scene. - 4Hamlet posessed:Jonathon Pryce- by spirit of father - manifestation effective, sceptical audience.
- 5Hamlet v MacbethHamlet 220 line soliloquy - Macbeth around the same - other tragic heroes hardly any.
both impelled by supernatural solicitings to
kill a king.
speak in generalities
puritanical idealist
Wittenberg 16th Century - most famous university in Europe - protestant university - do not believe in purgatory
Protestant teaching - ghosts devils assuming the form of a dead person to lead them to damnation. - 6HoratioFriend to the ground
material susbtance physical sovereignty of Denmark
Horatio no familial associations defined occupation - friendship , equality, subordiante,
hail to your lordship your poor servant ever.
My good friend I''ll change my name for you . - 7Anatole FrancePrince HAMLET you are what we are a man in the midst of universal war- which of us does not resemble you in something
most manifold man ( Zachinson)
Hamelt is like a sponge ... it immediately absorbs all the problems of our time- ubiquitous
Elizabeth England audience uneducated in academic sense but demanding and experienced - 8Antic Disposition - LidzRecognised that Guildenstein and Rosencratz
I know a hawk from a handsaw
hawk - bird / tool
handsaw- harnsaw- heron
knows a tool and birds from other tools and birds
Hamlet not driven by an urge for revenge but an urge for knowledge
ethically conscious person that doesnt break the fifth commandment. - 9monika pecikiewicz- HamletAbsorbing contemporary polish anxieties about powers: sex , money and abuse
sexual transgression
sex is power- power is sex- Getrude conical breasts.
dominatrix
desexualised children - Hamlet , Ophelia, Laertes - grooming in the society
very image of domestically abused hosue wife. - 10Briged Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James 11602 ( first performance)
Renaissance humanism - new interest in human behaviour. - 11Revenge TragediesIn rage - mid 1530s the bloodier the better
Amleth 12th century story - bases for his great tragedy
Harold Bloom - Hamelt invented humanity
Denmark elective not hereditary monarchy
Hamlet - deep thoughts
Laertes- haughty, hot temepred
Fortinbras, obsessed with wagng war - 12Legitimacy of Claudius and Getrudes rulereflecting ucnertainty over the royal sucession anticipating momentous event- Elizabeth died childless 1903
- 13Ghost Catholics - restless human soulds died in voilent circumstances remained in purgatoryLudwig Cavelier pergutory - rejected the idea
Amleth locks Hamelts melancholy disposition and long soliloquies
Chivalric code- code of honour included avenging lawless killing
Elizabethans began to regard killing as less heroic than people of the middle ages
Hamelt torn by the concepts of venegeance as honourable and sin as murder. - 14Roland Mushat Fryeabhorence for wilfull rebel lion - wars of the roses - reduced country to the near anarchy and pervasive voilence- abhorence of anything approving a militant assault upon the enllgish monarch.
- 15Eileen Cameron- Foreboding danger
Horatio words prophetic and revelatory
Hamlets unconsious thoughts - translate- real and palpable - 16unfathonable and inexhaustible -death, revenge, conspiracy, delay, mortality
renaissance - mediavlism - modern world
typical representative of reineassiance hummanism
Noble qualitaties of intelectual thinker
delays of revege leit motif of the drama
Wofford - Critics start to focus on Hamelts delay as a character rather than a plot device. - 17Sigmund FreudPsychopathic characters on stage
express our own repressed impulses
good playwright manlouvres our desires into the light with a mixture of tiltillation and censure.
provokes not merely an enjoyment of the liberation but a resistance to it as well. - 18Cumberbatch - Lyndsey Turnerbeginning of production - phtoo album- gramopone
adorned jacket- King
Susan Brooke - genuinely disturbed ophelia - 19revenge relates to the very basic concerns about the relationship betwen the indidiuvdal and the state.Private revenge acts commonly blood feuds- retributive action
concept of blood feud subjetive
if elizabeth married- england lost - european prince
childless- threat of civil war
petrarchan lovver - untouchably perfecty duty
I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart of a king and the king of england too.
De Massse
as for her face it apepars and is very aged
compared to what they were formally
the bossom is somewhat wrinkled as well. - 20My Claudius : a case agaisnt the king as villain - Blackwellsch 1. 2 metaphoricaly indoctrinates the audience as inhabitatants of a stable prosperous elisnore
speech- more indidicative of Shakespeares penchant for complex antithesis as a rhetorical device than an example of convoluted diplomacy express empathy to Hamlet without - 21John UpdikeHamlet- callous, egocentric , villain of Hamlet- condemnation
- 22Paapa Essiedu RSC Simon GodwinQueen smiling throughout the funeral - military arms- identity crisis - intimation, military tyranny implied- time magazine - westernized puppet/ dangerous despot.
- 23David Tennant Hamletfamiliar frantic actions
spontaneous thought
reveal deep melancholy
security cameras representation o fsurveillance
Maria Gales Ophelia - haunting vulnerability - 24King James:Time - law of the free monarchies
the state of the monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth
hamrful act against a king monstrous and unnatural
Gods deputies on earth - divine right to rule
Theres such divinity doth hedge a king - 25Henry IrvingYeat- lean image of hungry speculation , white face emphasised blue black hair, lovable schostic prince.
- 26Garicks production - Charlotte WishmannI dont like the kicking of the chair, nor the queen sprawling on the ground.
- 27Gielgud, Olivier, Branburghcombined roles of actor and director- Hqamelt more sympathetic even heroic figures actor manager ego has been nourished by the size of the roles.
- 28Card removed Fortinbras- Robert Wiltis 1723- cut until 1897Angela Wrinkler as hamlet- revenger abused, damaged child in shock reduced to a puppet.
- 29Carol Rutter protested against diminution of Ophelia under the male gaze in Olivier and Branaghs films.Miller and Dergman tried to correct this: traditional patronizing prettification of Ophelia - suffering insanity, embarrassingly ugly and painful approach can still objectivy and demean Ophelia -
Natlie Dessay - Ah, Cruel J'Taime - blookd trickling down her dress self harming - 30Jessner 1926political rebel- acttack on Kaiser Wilheim 11 - Nazis offence against the playwright.
in Britain more muted and spasmodic - 31GoetheA beautiful, pure, nobel and msot moral nature, without the strength of nerve which makes the hero, sinks beneath a burden which it can neither bear nor throw of.
- 32Freudian Analysismarkedly sensual nature, passionate fondness for her son
associaiton fo the idea of sexuality but his moter, burried since ifnancy, can no longer be concealed through cosnciousness.
Bradley " Herson was joiend to see in ehr aciton not only an astounding shallowness of feeling, but an eruption of coarse sensuality, rank and gross. - 33Queen ElizabethPatriarchal age and country - had to find a way to calm the nerves of her people while maintaining he rpositon as a figure of authority
Richard Monsrose - shaping fantasies- Rulers task is to comprehend to udnerstand and to encompass the energies and the motives, the diverse , unstable and potentially subsversive apprehensions of the ruled. - 34Lisa Jardine - standard authority aristotleWomen elss spiritied than the male, softer in disposition , more mischevious, less simple, more imputive and more attentive to the nature of their young
More prone to dispondency less hopeful than the man, more void of shame, more talk of speech, more deceptive.
Elizabeth no sort of women rights
Used chastitty to divert attention of her woomen hood- Jardine - 35Janet AdelmanSuffocating mothers - pre eminently mother as other the intimate uunknown figure around whom fantasies swirl.
- 36Lewn -Ghost and Hamelt - face value- unreliable, Gertrudes guilt not based on ehr own aciton /words / chances but on emotionally charged declaraiton of her late husband and melancholic son.
- 37LacanObejct Ophelia- essential but only because untied forever for centuries to the figure of Hamlet.
- 38LEE EDWARDSimpossible to reconstruct Ophelias biography from the text can imagine Hamlets story without Ophelia but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet.
- 39Gertrudes " speech is nothing"Horror of having nothing to say- Ophelia's story becomes the story of O the zero
Edwards - 40William Hazlitt - Polonius"sincere" father, but also "a busy-body, [who] is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent".
- 41Alen Bates portrays Claudius asdrunken, buffoonish, craven schemer -
- 42Voltairevulgar and barbarous drama which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France/ Italy. One would imagine this piece to be written by the work of a drunken savage - a midst all the vulgar irregularities some sublime passages worthy of the greatest genius.
- 43Samuel Johnsonof the feigned madness of Hamlet, there appears no adequate cause for he does nothing which he may not have done with the reputation of sanity. He plays the madman most when he treats O with such rudeness, which seems to be useless and wanton cruelty.
rather an instrument than an agent. - 44JW Von Goethe-All duties are holy for him the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him not in themselves impossibilities but such for him.
- 45St Coleridge.Hamlet is brave and careless of death; but he vacillates from sensibility, and procrastinates from thought, and loses the power of action in the energy of resolve. Thus it is that this tragedy presents a direct contrast to that of "Macbeth;" the one proceeds with the utmost slowness, the other with a crowded and breathless rapidity.
- 46ColleridgePolonius is a man of maxims. While he is descanting on matters of past experience, as in that excellent speech to Laertes before he sets out on his travels, he is admirable; but when he comes to advise or project, he is a mere dotard.
- 47A.C BRADLEYMelancholy it accounts for the main fact- Hamlets inaction
- 48Andrew Scotts performance Almeida TheatreeLaertes in tender with his sister and always fiery towards enemies.
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