Hamlet Critical quotes

• Betterton's Hamlet: 'bold and heroic'
• Hanmer: 'Hamlet's anger is natural'
• Gentleman: 'Laments Hamlet's inconsistency'
• Boswell: 'Irresolute'
• Schlegel: 'Hamlet's tendency to philosophise makes him unable to act'
• Mackenzie: 'Extreme sensibility of mind'
• Coleridge: 'Aversion to real action'
• Mallarme: 'A killer who kills without concern'
• AC Bradley: 'Hamlet suffering from an excess of melancholy from moral shock linked to Gertrude'
• Wilson Knight: 'Mortality is the focus of the play'
• Fly: 'An encounter with the universality of death'
• Freud: 'Hamlet's madness is a cloak of wit and intelligibility'
• Van Doren: 'Scatters death like a universal plague'
• Wilson Knight: 'An element of evil in the state of Denmark'