Hamlet Critics (Jai)

Ernest Jones on Hamlet's conscience

"a tortured conscience"

Lee Edwards on Ophelia

"Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet"

Kiernan Ryan on the root cause of Hamlet's problem

"the root cause of [Hamlet's] quandary lies deeper than his uncle's villainy"

Marvin Rosenberg on the roles in Hamlet

"[Hamlet's] roles are manifestations of those we all more or less 'play'"

Goethe on Hamlet and religion

"every duty is holy to [Hamlet]"

"most moral nature"

G. W. Knight on Denmark's health

"Denmark is a healthy and content community"

"Claudius ... [is an] efficient and kindly administrator"

Henry Levin on Hamlet's madness

"thought-sick not brain-sick ... neurotic not psychotic"

John Mullen on the ghost

"no one can think of [the ghost] as a psychological projection"

Harold Bloom on Hamlet's intelligence

a man who "thinks too well"

Stephen Greenblatt on the ghost and Hamlet

"a distinctly Protestant temperament ... haunted by a distinctly Catholic ghost"

Coleridge on Hamlet's inaction

Hamlet has "an overbalance in the mind"

Bacon on Shakespeare's revenge

"a kind of wild justice"

Stéphane Mallarmé, Renaissance humanist quote

"Hamlet walks around, and the book he reads is himself"

Sir Herbert Tree on humour

[Hamlet is a] "firmament of tragedy made blacker by the jewels of humour with which it is bestarred"

Emma Smith on Hamlets

"for there were always two Hamlets in Hamlet"