Hamlet critics

• Dusinberre: 'Ophelia is stifled by the authority of the male world'
• Schuking: 'Hamlet cannot be comprehended except as a study of emotion'
• Jones: 'Hamlet can't kill Claudius without killing himself'
• Belsey: 'men in Shakespeare's time were in perpetual fear of feminisation'
• Masculinity- Belsey


  • aggression=Laertes
  • Hamlet's hesitation was regarded as feminine
• Nietzche: 'Hamlet is not a man who thinks too much, but rather a man who thinks too well'
• Edwards: 'The ambiguity of the ghost is of fundamental important'