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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... Richard Burbage The Man in Black : Gallery Two ( appears between pages 164 and 165 ) By permission of the Dulwich Picture Gallery 2B Thomas Betterton as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library 3B David Garrick as ...
... Richard Burbage , who played the first Hamlet in the early seven- teenth century , to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet in 1996 , and beyond . It is no great risk to say that Hamlet is without parallel , the greatest play ever ...
... Richard Burbage , weighing in at 230 pounds , in the lead . Burbage is far from the lithe , tortured young man in black we generally conceive Hamlet to be . Indeed , Gertrude's remark in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that her son ...
... Burbage arrived and announced that Richard III had come . Shakespeare sent back a note informing Burbage that William the Conqueror came before Richard III . Even if this story is apocryphal , its suggestion of playful but genuine ...
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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 |