Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10/12/2007 - 256 páginas A mysterious, melancholic, brooding Hamlet has gripped and fascinated four hundred years' of readers, trying to "find" and know him as he searches for and avenges his father's name. Setting itself apart from the usual discussions about Hamlet, Hunt here demonstrates that Hamlet is much more than we take him to be. Much more than the sum of his parts--more than just tragic, sexy youth and more than just vain cruelty--Hamlet is a reflection of our own aspirations and neuroses. Looking for Hamlet investigates our many searches for Hamlet, from their origins in Danish mythology through the complex problems of early printed texts, through the centuries of shifting interpretations of the young prince to our own time when Hamlet is more compelling and perplexing than ever before. Hunt presents Hamlet as a sort of missing person, the idealized being inside oneself. This search for the missing Hamlet, Hunt argues, reveals a present absence readers pursue as a means of finding and identifying ourselves. |
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... Claudius , and Gertrude die within the span of a couple of minutes . But until 3.4 , Hamlet the play is like its protagonist , more talk than action . Earlier , when Polonius - a fatuous though nonetheless dangerous councilor who plays ...
... Claudius . On the third night Horatio , Hamlet's best friend from college , makes his appearance . Horatio joins the watch and the ghost appears again . Meanwhile , inside Elsinore , the new king Claudius explains to a general counsel ...
... Claudius interrupts just after the usurping murderer pours poison in the ear of the sleeping king , mirroring the death of King Hamlet . Claudius ' calling for the lights unequivocally indicates his guilt . In the next scene , 3.3 ...
... Claudius . Still later we will learn that Hamlet had altered the letter to the English king to command the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern . Meanwhile , Claudius enlists Laertes in a plot to kill Hamlet , and the fourth act ...
... Claudius . In Saxo Grammaticus ' account of Amleth and in Belleforest's reworking of this material in his story of Hamblet , we can clearly see the lineaments of Shakespeare's plot and his characters . Horwendil / Horvendile is Hamlet's ...
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| 13 | |
Two The Three Hamlets | 31 |
Relocating Reality in Hamlet | 71 |
Four Dead Son Hamlet | 85 |
Five Contrarians at the Gate | 93 |
A Brief History of Grief | 105 |
Hamlet and Melancholy | 115 |
Eight Hamlet among the Moderns | 129 |
Nine Postmodern Hamlet | 165 |
Ten Looking for Hamlet | 199 |
Bibliographic Essay | 209 |
Index | 223 |