Hamlet critic quotes

TUITP - DC on Human suffering

the uncertainty is the point - David Castan

ED - ADN on one’s experience of tragedy

enjoyed discomfort - A. D. Nuttall

NPATEOWTHRAI, ITFSS, AT - ACB

No play at the end of which the hero remains alive is, in the full shakespearean sense, a Tragedy - A. C. Bradley

HCBPIMTST - MM

Hamlet can be privileged in madness to say things - Maynard Mack

HNPTR, OTR - JK

Hamlet never promises to revenge, only to remember - John Kerrigan

ORALWWHNRK - JK

Ophelia recalls a lover which we have never really known - John Kerrigan

R[G]ITIOTVMWCGHFP - JA

Remake [Gertrude] in the image of the Virgin Mother who could guarantee his father’s purity - Janet Adelman

HSIODA - WH

Hamlet seems incapable of deliberate action - William Hazlitt

WADTGOAPITP - JDW, on Hamlet’s attitude to Ophelia

Without a doubt the greatest of all puzzles in the play - John Dover Wilson

TKHTDTGCOBTTS, WHBAWT - CP

The king has tumbled down the great chain of being to the subhuman, where he becomes a worthless thing - Camille Paglia

TC [...] FAAVPGOW - LJ

The closet […] functions as a very public gesture of withdrawal - Lisa Jardine

OBA, AOTMHOPA - CTN

Ophelia becomes alienated, acting out the madness Hamlet only plays at - Carol Thomas Neely

TSOOMHBSLBTPS - HW (Ophelia actress)

The seeds of Ophelia’s madness had been sown long before the play started - Harriet Walter

MOBR - JB on Claudius

Master of balanced rhetoric - Jonathan Bate

HFHBUTH[…]TTCVTHDD - JA

Hamlet's father has become unavailable to him...through the complex vulnerability that his death demonstrates - Janet Adelman

LAP, MS, SAB - on melancholy

lean and pale, moving slowly, sad and brooding

GITTO[H]H - SM on femininity

Gertrude is the target of [his] hatred - Sonia Massai

MAOF[…]OWSCBSTHCK - MM

make awards of flowers...of which she cannot be supposed to have conscious knowledge - Maynard Mack

MFMP - SM

most fiercely misogynistic plays - Sonia Massai

RHH, ETTPOM - JK

Remembrance haunts him, even to the point of madness - John Kerrigan

TDTMAHFTD

To detach the memories and hopes from the dead - John Kerrigan

HIALOTHAAMCWB - WH

Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be - William Hazlitt