Hamlet critical quotes

• Betterton: 'Hamlet was 'bold and heroic''
• Hanmer: 'Hamlet's anger is 'natural''
• Gentleman: 'Hamlet's 'inconsistency''
• Boswell: ''Irresolute''
• Goethe: 'Hamlet is without 'strength of mind.' ... 'Noble and most moral nature''
• 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 is 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''
• "Hamlet is the only protagonist in any Elizabethan revenge play who can be considered a hero, aware of moral implications"- Dawson
• "Hamlet is a figure of nihilism"- Wilson Knight
• "Hamlet finally accepts death"- L. C. Knights
• "when he does enact his revenge... it is too late to derive any satisfaction from it"- Jamieson
• "the revenge itself ends up being almost an afterthought, and in many ways, is anticlimactic"- Jamieson
• "Hamlet seems to try to work out the moral validity of revenge"- Jones
• "Hamlets argument against action frequently refer to the danger of accepting appearance as reality"- Lott
• "In Hamlet, appearance confuse"- Hansford