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“All duties seem holy to Hamlet”
Goethe 1795 (duty)
“persuasiveness and physical courage of a ruler, but is morally empty”
Schofield
“Hamlet is obliged to act on the spur of the moment”
1800s, Coleridge; killing
“He loved Gertrude deeply and genuinely”
Dawson
“The key comic element of the play is madness”
Sir Herbert Tree
“a woman of exuberant sexuality”
Bloom
“Hamlet is haunted, not by physical fear of dying, but being dead'“
C.S. Lewis
“Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality and language”
Showalter
“Pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest”
R.Smith, interest
“The violence towards the mother is the effect of the desire for her”
J.Rose
“A poetic and morally sensitive soul”
1795 Goethe
he identified Hamlet’s illness as melancholy
Thomas Bright, 1580
“A strong independent woman, destroyed by the hearlessness of men”
Faucit
“Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent”
S.Johnson, 1765
“Hamlet is incapable of acting because he thinks too much”
Coleridge in 1800s
“Hamlet is a merge of the tragic hero and the clown figure’
G. Josipovici
“We are never perfectly certain as to who or what the ghost is”
J. Dover Wilson 1935
“Rosencrantz and Guilldenstern are just toadies to the king”
J. Gielgud 20th century
“Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet”
L. Edwards
“[Hamlet is] an element of evil in the state of Denmark'‘
W.Knight, 1930.
“He is not a monster, he is morally weak”
A. Mabillard.
“the world of Hamlet is a remarkably enclosed one”
A. Gardner
“Even in her madness she has no voice of her own”
Leverenz
Gertrude is a “soft, obedient, dependent, unimaginative woman”
Smith
“Her role is definitely subordinate”
Maxwell
Laertes is like a hurricane. He rushes into the palace in an uncontrolled rage, roaring for blood.
Prosser, 20th century
“a weak, sacrificial victim”
Reinhardt about Ophelia
“a melancholy man is become a savage creature”
A. du Laurens 1599
“a woman’s social position is entirely defined by how she is in the relation to men”
Dr E. Whipday, 2023
“Hamlet is the tragedy of reflection”
A.C. Bradley
“Hamlet is a figure of nihilism and death”
W. Knight nihilism
Revenge is “rather an act of injustice on behalf of justice”
Belsey
“No one in this play knows or understands anyone else”
Charnes