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Scene summaries
Act 1 scene 1 1,
Act 1 scene 2 2,
Act 1 scene 3 3
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Theatrical Interpretations
Kozinstev 1,
Broadway richard burton 2,
Royal court theatre 3
10
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Terminology
Subject pronoun 1,
Objective pronoun 2,
Possessive pronoun 3
44
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Dramatic terminology
Anagnorisis 1,
Antagonist 2,
Anticipation 3
26
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Key Quotations - Hamlet
Aside first lines of the play rel...,
Hamlet self loathing after player...,
Hamlet feeling suicidal in his fi...
34
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Key Quotations - Claudius
Claudius on his guilt 1,
Claudius admission of guilt 2,
Claudius can t pray 3
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Key Quotations - Horatio
Horatio to hamlet as he is dying 1,
Horatio wanting to commit suicide...,
Horatio talking about the state 3
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Key Quotations - Polonius
Spying on hamlet with claudius in...,
Polonius death words 2,
Polonius aside about hamlet s mad...
5
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Key Quotations - Ophelia
Ophelia singing after polonius de...,
Ophelia s obedience 2,
Ophelia assuring laertes she ll t...
8
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Key Quotations - Gertrude
Gertrude describing ophelia s dea...,
Gertrude telling hamlet to stop g...,
Blunt telling polonius to talk wi...
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Key Quotations - Minor Characters
Barnardo the first line of the pl...,
Marcellus to horatio 2,
Francisco on the battlements 3
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Critical readings
Ideas of aristotelian tragedy ari...,
Aristotelian tragedy in hamlet 2,
Ideas of marxism karl marx 3
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Critical Interpretations - Hamlet
Hamlet is he whose powers of acti...,
Hamlet is faced with scruples of ...,
Hamlet seems obsessed with gertru...
16
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Critical Interpretations - Claudius
To everyone except hamlet claudiu...,
Claudius is a good and gentle king 2,
Claudius uses the death of hamlet...
10
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Critical Interpretations - Gertrude
Gertrude is an obedient dependent...,
It is gertrude s sexuality that t...,
Negative and insignificant 3
8
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Critical Interpretations - Polonius
Knowing in retrospect and ignoran...,
A bad parent 2,
Made palatable by the fact that h...
8
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Critical Interpretations - Ophelia
Ophelia is deprived of thought se...,
We can imagine hamlet s story wit...,
Where hamlet feigns madness ophel...
12
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Critical Interpretations - Other
Laertes comes as a revolutionary ...,
A character filled by his emotion...,
Laertes and fortinbras are both r...
6
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Critical Interpretations - Madness
Hamlet thinks too deeply 1,
This melancholy is very different...,
Hamlet becomes disillusioned with...
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Critical Interpretations - Revenge
Revenge exists as a margin betwee...,
Revengers create their own social...,
An afterthought is anticlimactic 3
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Critical Interpretations of the play as a whole
Hamlet is the ultimate expression...,
Hamlet is a male orientated play ...,
The play acts as a spur for hamle...
10
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18th Century Responses to Hamlet
Thomas hammer on hamlet s charact...,
Thomas hammer on hamlet s delay 2,
Samuel johnson on hamlet s behavi...
5
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Romantic Responses to Hamlet
Study of romantic period 1,
Samuel coleridge identifying with...,
Samuel coleridge on hamlet s mind 3
9
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Freudian Responses to Hamlet
Freud on hamlet s murders 1,
Freud on hamlet s delay 2,
Freud on hamlet s oedipal feelings 3
6
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Early 20th Century Responses to Hamlet
Coleridge on hamlet s character 1,
Ac bradley on hamlet 2,
Ac bradley on the impact of gertr...
5
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Feminist Readings and Criticisms of Hamlet
Core focuses of feminist criticism 1,
Central ideas of feminist thinking 2,
Lisa jardine 3
12
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Marxism Readings of Hamlet
Marxism based on 1,
Karl marx 2,
Marxist politics vs analysis 3
8
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Critical Interpretations - Women
Ernest jones 1,
Elaine showalter 2,
Stanton 3
4
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