Hamlet Critical Quotes

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  • Created on: 13-02-19 18:25
"For the ghost, as for Hamlet...
...Gertrude's chief crime is her uncontrolled sexuality" - Adelman
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"The Gertrude we see is more...
...muddled than actively wicked" - Adelman
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"The Queen was not a bad hearted woman...
...she was very dull and very shallow" - A.C Bradley
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"Hamlet is an instrument...
...rather than an agent" - Johnson
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"Hamlet's innermost nature is by no means irresolution or hesitation...
...but rather the strong conflux of contending forces" - A.C. Swinburne
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"[Ophelia's maddness] is a protest of rebellion. A heroin who...
...rebels against gender stereotypes and social order" - Feminist reading
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"[Hamlet rather than Claudius] an element of...
...evil in the state of Denamark" - Knight
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"Ophelia is used by Hamlet as...
...a means to make Gertrude jealous" - Jones
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"Even in her madness she has no voice of her own...
...only a discord of other voices and expectations" - Leverenz
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"The Gertrude we see is more...

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...muddled than actively wicked" - Adelman

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"The Queen was not a bad hearted woman...

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"Hamlet is an instrument...

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"Hamlet's innermost nature is by no means irresolution or hesitation...

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