Hamlet AO5 critical interp

significance of head, heart, hand

'struggle of becoming'

Hamlet is not indecisive

McRae

struggle of becoming source

God is Born, DH Lawrence

What matters most about Hamlet is his genius

Bloom

The identity of the Ghost is of fundamental importance

Edwards

Horatio is the true representation of friendship

Pope

It is not only Elsinore that is out of joint

Austen

psychological rather than physical

iconic revenge tragedy of a brooding hero trapped in a family melodrama and an existential crisis

Smith

The tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind

Laurence Olivier

Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)

documentary about 2 actors recreating Hamlet in 2020

every great tragedy from Greek to Shakespeare, ends in a bloodbath

agnosingly [Hamlet] must resort to the very thing that takes him down to the level of his opponents: violence

Hamlet remains the profoundest meditation on the state of the nations that are behest by corruption and instability

Bates, FT

one particular theme of his interpretation: life as theatre, theatre as life

on Bergman prod. 1986

insanity frequently gets linked with her sexuality

Showalter

While Hamlet languishes in his grief and debates what actions to take, Ophelia doe not hesitate - she is resolutely a woman of action

Shakespeare knows that grief looks messy

Thompson