hamlet critics

• "madness becomes, consequently a closing off of oneself from others"- Jerome Mazzaro
• "an obedient daughter and sister and she is left without reliable support in a world" by Jerome Mazzaro
• "she is the abandoned victim of an opportunistic lover" by Jerome Mazzaro
• "he was a genius and a hero, an unusually gifted and admirable person" by Robert Palfrey
• "Hamlet is an outstandingly moral man" by Robert Palfrey
• "the man of moral idealism" by Robert Palfrey
• "his desire to right the wrong set him apart from Fortinbras and Laertes, who desire merely to retaliate in kind for an injury done to their fathers" by Robert Palfrey
• "Neither Hamlet nor the people of Denmark are ready for the killing of Claudius yet; Hamlet because he would not be killing in spirit of justice but a spirit of hatred" by Robert Palfrey
• "Catholicism had an imaginative hold over early modern drama" by woods
• "Hamlet is an individual with a personality" by Levin
• "Hamlet reflects anxieties about female intervention in a patrilinear culture" by Thompson
• "Hamlet wishes to damn his uncle's soul, not merely slay his body" by Muir
• "inside Hamlet there rages a silent war between masculinity and femininity" by Eyres
• "madness as an instrument of of social power and political disorder" by Coddon
• "is Hamlet a Christ figure? does he expose the rot and sacrifice himself?" by Frank Kermode