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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... mind , Marvin W. Hunt gets to the heart of what gives the play its power , offers a revelatory look at Shakespeare's most popular creation , and sheds new light on why he has been such an enduring character . LOOKING for HAMLET MARVIN W ...
... minds of four centuries have pursued the character Hamlet in an effort to pin down his meaning , yet their findings have always been provisional and contingent . Hamlet certainly experiences the universal problems of young men — the ...
... mind to within it , taking us from a medieval mindset that held reality to be objective , anterior , and superior to human experience , to a modern , or more pre- cisely , an early modern view that holds reality to be in large part , if ...
... mind , notably depression , which Shakespeare and his generation signified by the word melancholy . It is apparent that Hamlet , aside from his playing the fool , really is the Melancholic Dane . He is clinically depressed , we would ...
... mind in and at depths , that no other play can match . It speaks to us directly across history and represents , at the deepest levels , a shaping fantasy , as Shakespeare's Theseus says in A Midsummer Night's Dream , that gives a local ...
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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 |