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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... Later a letter to Horatio arrives from Hamlet explaining that he was taken captive by pirates who spared his life in return for favors from Claudius . Still later we will learn that Hamlet had altered the letter to the English king to ...
... later in Shakespeare , Belleforest's Hamblet viciously whips his mother with bestial analogies . “ O , queen Geruth , " he says , " it is the part of a bitch to couple with many . " Geruth is less and worse than a beast . Even " lions ...
... later , that it featured a ghostly father who commanded his son to avenge his murder . This must mean that , as in the Danish sources , the Claudius figure was the villain of the old play , the murderer of Hamlet's father . It's ...
... be associated for the rest of his career . But this occurs in 1594 , the year Shakespeare joined that company , rather too early , as I argue below , to have been his work . Two years later , in 1596 , Thomas Lodge , 24 LOOKING FOR HAMLET.
... later render as , " If thou didst ever thy dear father love ... Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder . " Lodge's remark is even more tantalizingly biographi- cal if by " Theatre ” he is referring to the Theatre , London's first ...
Índice
| 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 |