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Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: Commentary On The Criticism Of Hamlet

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Brodwin, Leonora
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, St. John's University

Commentary On The Criticism Of Hamlet

One of the first critical comments on Hamlet might serve as an apt
reminder to all of the later critics who, with such infinite variety, have
agreed only to disagree. In his Discourse upon Comedy written in 1702, the
major comic playwright George Farquhar referred to Hamlet as "long the Darling
of the English Audience, and like to continue with the same Applause, in
Defiance of all the Criticism that were ever ...

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