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Decks in this class (28)
Scene summaries
Act 1 scene 1,
Act 1 scene 2,
Act 1 scene 3
20
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Theatrical Interpretations
Kozinstev,
Broadway richard burton,
Royal court theatre
10
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Terminology
Subject pronouns,
Objective pronoun,
Possessive pronoun
44
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Dramatic terminology
Anagnorisis,
Antagonist,
Anticipation
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,
Claudius admission of guilt,
Claudius can t pray
11
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Key Quotations - Horatio
Horatio to hamlet as he is dying,
Horatio wanting to commit suicide...,
Horatio talking about the state
4
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Key Quotations - Polonius
Spying on hamlet with claudius in...,
Polonius death words,
Polonius aside about hamlet s mad...
5
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Key Quotations - Ophelia
Ophelia singing after polonius death,
Ophelia s obedience,
Ophelia assuring laertes she ll t...
8
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Key Quotations - Gertrude
Gertrude describing ophelia s death,
Gertrude telling hamlet to stop g...,
Telling polonius to talk with
8
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Key Quotations - Minor Characters
Barnardo the first line of the play,
Marcellus to horatio,
Francisco on the battlements
9
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Critical readings
Aristotelian tragedy,
Aristotelian tragedy in hamlet,
Ideas of marxism
16
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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,
He claudius uses the death of ham...
10
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Critical Interpretations - Gertrude
Gertrude is an obedient dependent...,
It is gertrudes sexuality that tu...,
Negative and insignificant
8
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Critical Interpretations - Polonius
Knowing in retrospect and ignoran...,
A bad parent,
Made palatable by the fact that h...
8
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Critical Interpretations - Ophelia
Ophelia is deprived of thought se...,
We can imagine hamlets story with...,
Where hamlet feigns madness ophel...
12
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Critical Interpretations - Other
Laertes comes a revolutionary a d...,
A character filled by his emotion...,
Laertes and fortinbras are both r...
6
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Critical Interpretations - Madness
Hamlet thinks too deeply,
This melancholy is very different...,
Hamlet becomes disillusioned with...
8
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Critical Interpretations - Revenge
Revenge exists as a margin betwee...,
Revengers create their own social...,
The revenge itself ends up being ...
8
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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 character,
Thomas hammer on hamlet s delay,
Samuel johnson on hamlet s behaviour
5
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Romantic Responses to Hamlet
Study of romantic period,
Colerige identifying with hamlet,
Coleridge on hamlet s mind
9
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Freudian Responses to Hamlet
Freud on hamlet s murders,
Freud on hamlet s delay,
Freud on hamlet s oedipal feelings
6
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Early 20th Century Responses to Hamlet
Coleridge on hamlet s character,
Ac bradley on hamlet,
Ac bradley on the impact of gertr...
5
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Feminist Readings and Criticisms of Hamlet
Core focuses of feminist criticism,
Central ideas of feminist thinking,
Lisa jardine
12
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Marxism Readings of Hamlet
Marxism based on,
Karl marx,
Marxist politics vs analysis
8
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Critical Interpretations - Women
Ernest jones,
Elaine showalter,
Stanton
4
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