Hamlet - critical interpretations

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William Hazlitt quote

 “Hamlet…is not a character

marked by strength…but by

refinement of thought…Hamlet is

as little of the hero as man can

be”

William Hazlitt

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Maynard mack

“Hamlet can be privileged in madness to

say things…about the corruption of

human nature”

Maynard Mack

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maynard mack 2

“madness has a further dimension, as

insight”

Maynard Mack

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maynard mack 2

“madness has a further dimension, as

insight”

Maynard Mack

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John Kerrigan

“Hamlet never promises to revenge, only to remember”

John Kerrigan

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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

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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

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William Hazlitt

“Hamlet is the most remarkable for the ingenuity, originality and unstudied development of character”

William Hazlitt

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Caroline spurgeon

“images of sickness, disease…descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark”

Caroline Spurgeon

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AC Bradley

“Gertrude was very dull and very shallow”

AC Bradley

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William hazlitt 2

“he is the prince of philosophical speculators”

William Hazlitt

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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 

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Maynard mack 3

“Ophelia, mad [can]…appropriate to frailties of which she cannot be supposed to have conscious knowledge” 

 Maynard Mack 

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Richard d Altick

 “the cunning and lecherousness of Claudius’ evil has corrupted the whole kingdom of Denmark”

 Richard D Altick

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Andrew Dickson

"the real tragedy is that Hamlet concludes that humanity is so tainted by sin that love itself is delusive"

Andrew Dickson

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David Scott Kastan

"there are unanswered (perhaps unanswerable) questions of the tragic world. Are there reasons for the intolerable suffering?"

David Scott Kastan 

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Michael Pennington

"made palatable by the fact that he is funny"

Michael Pennington 

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