critic interps but its like a few, concise ones

‘The man that shows him the repressed wishes of his own childhood, unrealised’ [Claudius]

Freud

‘she represents the strong emotions that the Elizabethans as well as the Freudians thought womanish and unmanly.’ [Ophelia]

Showalter

How does one deal with a man [Claudius] without becoming like him?’

Foxman

‘Revenge is a kind of wild justice.’

Bacon

‘Hamlet's principal concern is not revenge but a desire to purify his mother.’

Adelman

‘The Ghost seeks to impose a stereotype, that of a dedicated revenger, but Hamlet repeatedly displays a very credible resistance to that stereotype’

Watts

‘Hamlet’s failure here is the cause of all disasters that follow’

AC Bradley

‘A melancholic is likely to be sad, pensive, and undisposed to go along with unorthodoxy. Like Hamlet’

Hebron

‘if kingship is all about performance, anyone can play the King’

J Patrick

‘Gertrude believes that quiet women best please men, and pleasing men is Gertrude’s main interest’

Smith

‘Fortinbras is a man of action more than words’

Tomko

‘Hamlet is rather an instrument than an agent’

Johnson

‘Hamlet delays a violent act because it is fundamentally not in his nature’

Bluer

‘Hamlet’s failure here is the cause of all disasters that follow’

AC Bradley

‘Hamlet finds the idea of his mother as an object of sexual desire an embarrassment’

Gunns

‘Ophelia’s madness is a protest and rebellion against the patriarchal society that has silenced and oppressed her’

Showalter

‘Hamlet’s delay is due to the moral repugnance to the act of revenge’

Prosser

‘Hamlet is an evil in the state of Denmark’

Knight

‘the play is a reflection of the nature of political power and the corruption that often accompanies it’

Greenblatt

‘Hamlet is haunted, not by a physical fear of dying, but of being dead’

CS Lewis

‘The number of images of sickness, disease, or blemish of the body in the play... indicates a morbid state of mind and a morbid state of the country.’

Spurgeon

‘A strong intelligent woman destroyed by the heartlessness of men’

Faucit

‘It is perhaps because Hamlet’s emotional vulnerability can be so readily conceptualised as feminine that this is the only heroic male role in Shakespeare that has been regularly acted by women’

Showwalter