ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece, ” Eliot declares, “the play is most certainly an artistic failure.” Coriolanus may be not as “interesting” as Hamlet, but it is, with Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot goes on to argue that Coriolanus, a late tragedy by Shakespeare, is, ‘with Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Hamlet is Shakespeare’s greatest play because, while the play showcases the struggles of Danish royals, what Shakespeare has really written about are the core elements that drive all of us: grief, betrayal, love (or the lack thereof) and family.

Detailed explanation-4: -First performed in 1603, Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark is probably the best known of William Shakespeare’s works, and may well be the most famous English-language play ever written. Categorized as one of Shakespeare’s “later tragedies, ” Hamlet and its namesake hero display fully the mature Bard’s extraordinary talents.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eliot uses Lady Macbeth’s state of mind as an example of the successful objective correlative: “The artistic ‘inevitability’ lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion….", as a contrast to Hamlet.