Add to ORKG"So far from being Shakespeare's masterpiece, the play is most certainly an artistic failure." This comment of T. S. Eliot's on Hamlet-one of three that I shall single out from his essay-has not really proved damaging to the play. Readers have continued to find it as coherent as any other Shakespearian tragedy, and there have been no reports of audiences retreating baffled from the theatre in mid-performance. "Hamlet (the man) is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excess of the facts as they appear." Taken as a factual statement, this is not in itself especially alarming either: everything depends on the deductions made from it. Eliot's really damaging comment is the third one, because it so encapsulates his de...
T.S. Eliot’s poem of 1922, “The Waste Land,” lays philosophical and stylistic ground for the Modern ...
T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" (1921) seems to be a pretext to add another erudite concept t...
One tendency in Othello criticism in the twentieth century has culminated in an image of the Moor as...
Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
A half century and more has elapsed now since T. S. Eliot declared Hamlet to be "most certainly an a...
If the title of this essay looks vaguely familiar, that is as it should be. It echoes, with delibera...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
Literary critics were not the first to speculate on the nature of Hamlet's problems and the reasons ...
Through an examination of Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet, this essay attempts to evaluate the play\u27s man...
Bad criticism is often the result of imposing on a work an unhelpful theoretical model: in the case ...
T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" (1921) seems to be a pretext to add another erudite concept t...
Throughout Hamlet, the hero shows a persistent fascination with art. Daalder discusses how Hamlet's ...
Probably more time has been misspent in trying to fit together the pieces of the Hamlet puzzle than ...
T.S. Eliot’s poem of 1922, “The Waste Land,” lays philosophical and stylistic ground for the Modern ...
T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" (1921) seems to be a pretext to add another erudite concept t...
One tendency in Othello criticism in the twentieth century has culminated in an image of the Moor as...
Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
Hamlet is such an obscure, impenetrable and nuanced writing that it has been prey to a runaway inter...
A half century and more has elapsed now since T. S. Eliot declared Hamlet to be "most certainly an a...
If the title of this essay looks vaguely familiar, that is as it should be. It echoes, with delibera...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
Literary critics were not the first to speculate on the nature of Hamlet's problems and the reasons ...
Through an examination of Shakespeare\u27s Hamlet, this essay attempts to evaluate the play\u27s man...
Bad criticism is often the result of imposing on a work an unhelpful theoretical model: in the case ...
T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" (1921) seems to be a pretext to add another erudite concept t...
Throughout Hamlet, the hero shows a persistent fascination with art. Daalder discusses how Hamlet's ...
Probably more time has been misspent in trying to fit together the pieces of the Hamlet puzzle than ...
T.S. Eliot’s poem of 1922, “The Waste Land,” lays philosophical and stylistic ground for the Modern ...
T.S. Eliot's "Hamlet and His Problems" (1921) seems to be a pretext to add another erudite concept t...
One tendency in Othello criticism in the twentieth century has culminated in an image of the Moor as...