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HAMLET AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW OF THE NATURE OF CRITICISM 1- Literary periods 2- criticism of Hamlet by three authors from different periods 3-Using this in your SAC

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HAMLET AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW OF THE NATURE OF CRITICISM

1- Literary periods

2- criticism of Hamlet by three authors from different periods

3-Using this in your SAC

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Descriptors

DESCRIPTOR: Highly-developed understanding of viewpoints or theoretical perspectives. Detailed and carefully-selected reference to key concepts and terms in the review/essay. Comprehensive exploration of the values and

assumptions underlying one or more viewpoints on a text. Sophisticated evaluation of one or more viewpoints.

Considered selection and highly-effective use of textual evidence to support an independent interpretation. Highly-expressive and coherent development of ideas.

course outline

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BEFORE WE GO ON...

When we say ‘criticism’ we are talking about literary criticism, it is not necessarily value laden ie. an attack or praise, it is instead- an analysis of elements of the literary work.

So ‘the critics’ are offering their understanding and analysis of Hamlet.

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Time Periods in literature

Time periods in literature are divided into categories. Such as the Reformation, Victorian age, modernist period etc.

Each category incorporates both a set of authors who were active at the time and a set of ideas which were popular at the time.

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Periods

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Shakespeare wrote during the Renaissance and Reformation.

Analyses of his work have continued through each period since and so I have chosen three ideas to discuss from different periods and different authors.

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Voltaire 1765

Le christianisme est la plus ridicule, la religion la plus absurde et sanglante qui ait jamais infecté le monde.[33]

(Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that ever infected the world.)

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VoltaireHis most famous remark on slavery is found in "Candide", where

the hero is horrified to learn 'at what price we eat sugar in Europe'

Voltaire's criticisms are widely quoted (largely inaccurately) He famously wrote a letter to a man named Bernard Joseph Saurin. Which reads as follows.

This is a useful starting point but is more a comment than literary criticism. Do you agree with his views?

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TS ELIOT 1888-1965

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BEFORE WE GO ON

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What literary periods did TS Elliot 1888-1965, Voltaire 1694-1778 and Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 come from?

Take careful note of the dates and we can open up the timeline again and find out.

1- TS Elliot was a critic and writer of the POSTMODERN PERIOD (c. 1945? onward

2-Voltaire was a writer of the The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period (c. 1660-1790)

3- Oscar Wilde was a writer of the VICTORIAN PERIOD And The 19th Century (c. 1832-1901)

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TS Elliot was a famous writer and critic of the post modern period of literature.

He most famously wrote (in my opinion) The Wasteland I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding   Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing   Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.   Winter kept us warm, covering          5 Earth in forgetful snow, feeding   A little life with dried tubers.   Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee   With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,   And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,   10 And drank coffee, and talked for an hour

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More importantly Elliot also wrote a famous criticism of Hamlet called The Sacred Wood

You should try to read it if you have time.

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Document link

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The versification is variable. Lines likeLook, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill, are of the Shakespeare of Romeo and Juliet.

But in the midst of all these rude irregularities, which to this day make the English theatre so absurd and so barbarous, there are to be found in "Hamlet" by a yet greater incongruity sublime strokes worthy of the loftiest geniuses

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Harold Bloom

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Bloom

Bloom referred to the "double sense" of literature, in which the play is a mirror held up to nature, and yet the reflection returns only "the mind's meditation on the image." This notion of duality was a recurrent theme in the lecture. Bloom brought up a similar conflict within Hamlet himself, in which his own self-awareness becomes his greatest obstacle. The driving force of Hamlet's character, according to Bloom, is his consciousness of his own self-consciousness. Through the play, he said, Hamlet attempts purge his own consciousness of its "inwardness."

Bloom described Hamlet as a literary genius, as one with the ability to "expand our own consciousness without deforming it."

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So.. Bloom believes that Hamlet is an exploration of the idea of a separation between ones actions and ones thoughts , ones awareness of the world ‘I need to kill the King’ and the great problem of being aware of ones thoughts on needing to kill the king. Does this explain all the soliloquys where Hamlet struggles with his thoughts on revenge.

another web page on ''doubled' ideas in Hamlet

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A cartoon Hamlet 8min