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AC Bradley - Death
Hamlet most brings to us a sense of the soul’s infinity
Kenneth Branagh - Comedy
The Comedic moments in Hamlet provide opportunities for physical humour and slapstick, show casing the versatility of Shakespeare’s writing
Campbell - Madness
Hamlet is emotional unstable, not insane
K.Cartwright - Death
We become Hamlet’s memory as he had been the ghost
Peter Davison - Comedy
There is an attempt to puzzle out the meaning of life and death, in his humour
Lee Edwards - Sex
We can imagine Hamlet’s story without Ophelia but Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet
William Hazlitt - Complexity
Dallies with his purpose till the occasion is lost … relapse into indolence
Holleran - power
Corruption of the court forecasts disater
Samuel Johnson - Madness
Whilst Ophelia’s Madness creates tenderness and sympathy, Hamlet’s leads to mirth
Kastan 1 - Tragedy
Uncertainty is the point
Kastan 2 - tragedy
Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genera of uncompensated suffering
John Kerrigan 1 - remembrance
Through the loss of Ophelia, Hamlet feels that of his father
John Kerrigan 2 - Remembrance
The ghost condemns Hamlet to an endless, fruitful yearning for a lost figure
Jan Kott - Supernatural
The Supernatural in Hamlet mirrors the chapters pscyholical states blurring the lines between reality and illusion
Terry Miller - Love
For Gertrude, passionate love is a binding, reckless emotion that leads her to do foolish things. This drags down her whole family and kingdom
Rubenfeld
Claudius is a mirror of hamlet himself
Elaine Showalter 2 - Femininity
Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language
Rebecca Smith - Femininity
Pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest
Rebecca Smith - love
Polonius seems to love his children, he seems to have the welfare of the kingdom in mind. His means of action, however, are totally corrupt
O’toole - death
Hamlet is a play about death. Or rather is is a play about the survival of the individual in the face of death
G.Wilson Knight - Power
Claudius is a “good and gentle king”
Gillian Woods - Deception
The play is “obsessed with acting and deception”
Janet Adelman - Vengeance
Hamlet seems motivated more by his mother than by his father
Janet Adelman - Family
The closest screen carries sexual tension, with Hamlet repeatedly mentioning his mothers infidelity when speaking of his father
AC Bradley - Polonius
Polonius represents the epitome of courtly hypocrisy
AC Bradley - Laertes
Laertes’ desire for revenge stems from a sense of honour and familia loyalty, driving him to extremes in his quest to avenge his father’s death
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