“Hamlet never promises to revenge, only to remember”
John Kerrigan
5 of 17
janet adelman
“the main psychological task…is not to avenge his father’s death but to remake his mother…in the image of the Virgin Mother”
Janet Adelman
6 of 17
janet adelman 2
“she plays out the role of the missing Eve: her body is the garden in which her husband dies; her sexuality the poisonous weeds that kill him”
Janet Adelman
7 of 17
William Hazlitt
“Hamlet is the most remarkable for the ingenuity, originality and unstudied development of character”
William Hazlitt
8 of 17
Caroline spurgeon
“images of sickness, disease…descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark”
Caroline Spurgeon
9 of 17
AC Bradley
“Gertrude was very dull and very shallow”
AC Bradley
10 of 17
William hazlitt 2
“he is the prince of philosophical speculators”
William Hazlitt
11 of 17
John Kerrigan 2
“woman’s love is brief and unworthy. It seems that Ophelia wants to divest herself of every shred of attachment. In this, she is no better than Gertrude”
John Kerrigan
12 of 17
Maynard mack 3
“Ophelia, mad [can]…appropriate to frailties of which she cannot be supposed to have conscious knowledge”
Maynard Mack
13 of 17
Richard d Altick
“the cunning and lecherousness of Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark”
Richard D Altick
14 of 17
Andrew Dickson
"the real tragedy is that Hamlet concludes that humanity is so tainted by sin that love itself is delusive"
Andrew Dickson
15 of 17
David Scott Kastan
"there are unanswered (perhaps unanswerable) questions of the tragic world. Are there reasons for the intolerable suffering?"
Comments
No comments have yet been made