Hamlet - Critics
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- Created on: 19-04-16 23:19
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- Hamlet Critics by theme
- Ophelia
- Smith: 'Trained his daughter to be obedient and chaste'
- Showalter: 'Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language'
- Corruption
- Dollimore: 'Articulates a crisis in the decay of a traditional social order in England'
- Spurgeon: 'images of sickness and disease...as descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark morally'
- Morals
- Belsey: 'Revenge is always in excess of justice'
- Knight: 'Claudius, as he appears in the play, is not a criminal'
- Goethe: 'Most moral nature...sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear'
- Religion
- Goethe: 'All duties seem holy for Hamlet'
- Bradley: 'Hamlet is unable to carry out the sacred duty'
- Ophelia
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