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Hamlet critical anthology + extra critics
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- 1Hazlitt: The complexity of Hamlet'He is the prince of philosophical spectators'
'Yet he is sensible in his own weakness' - 2Kastan: Shakespearian tragedy'For Shakespeare... uncertainty is the point'
'Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering' - 3Nuttall: The pleasure of tragedy'Grief and fear become in their turn matter for enjoyment'
'If you like the disturbing kind of play, then this disturbance... must be a further mode of pleasure' - 4Bradley: The Shakespearian tragic hero'Essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death'
'Concerned always with persons of 'high degree' ' - 5Mack: Tragedy and madness'Madness has a further dimension, as insight'
'Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things' - 6Kerrigan: Memory and remembrance in Hamlet'Mourning has a physical task to perform: to detach the survivor's memories and hopes from the dead'
Bowlby: 'persistent and insatiable (yearning)... pain is inevitable' - 7Adelman: Avenging his father or saving his mother?'She is kept ambiguously innocent as a character'
Described as a shift from avenging father to saving his mother - peculiar revenge play - 8Edwards'We can imagine Hamlet's story without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet'
- 9T.S Eliot'The play is most certainly an artistic failure'
'Hamlet's behaviour and moods are in 'excess of the facts' ' - 10Belsey'Men in Shakespeare's time were in perpetual fear of feminisation'
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- A level English Flashcards on Hamlet critical anthology + extra critics, created by Marla MacCallum Hall on 19/04/2024.
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