Hamlet

• Nuttal


  Pleasure of tragedy
• Kerrigan


  • Remembers not forgets
  • Slows pace
  • Wistful for past time/for past people
• Adleman


  • Saving mother not avenging father which is what causes the delay
  • Gertrude as a missing Eve
• Bates


  • Asks big questions
• Bolt


  • 3 speakers
• Doren


  • Debates with the audience
• Shapiro


  • Fortinbrass is a foil, is connected, theme of beastliness
• Mack


  • Madness allows them insight and ability to express themselves
• C.t. Neely


  • Ophelia is act mad and Hamlet is not
  • Ophelia is erotic, Hamlet political
  • Ophelia absorbs Hamlet's madness
  • Hamlet theorises while Ophelia acts
• Knight


  • Embassy of death- main theme, first scene is climax
• A.c Bradley


  • Shakespearean tragic hero- one hero, tale of suffering, suffering extends far beyond him, suffering affects welfare of whole nation
• Newell


  • Hamlet believes he is a coward because he has not acted yet, imagines scenarios where he is insulted and absorbs the insults
• Davies


  • Audience overhears
• Kastan- tragedy is inescapable but the causes are unforeseen, provoke questions about life, unrewarded suffering