ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is ‘artistic failure’?
A
The Tempest
B
Hamlet
C
Henry IV, Pt I
D
Twelfth Night
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot thus determined that Shakespeare’s play Hamlet was an “artistic failure” because Hamlet’s intense emotions overwhelmed the author’s attempts to express them through an objective correlative.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the essay, Eliot notoriously deems Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy an “artistic failure, ” maintaining that the play represents a “primary problem, ” and that it contains certain weaknesses as a whole.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coriolanus may be not as “interesting” as Hamlet, but it is, with Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (/ˈhæmlɪt/), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet has the problem of procrastination and cannot act from emotions due to a lack of self-discipline. He is a man of reason and denies emotions so that his search for the truth of whether Claudius killed his father is satisfied.

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