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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... role , he offers actors a chance to infuse Shakespeare's superbly written dialogue with their own personal- ities . Taking readers on a tour of Hamlet's world and his troubled mind , Marvin W. Hunt gets to the heart of what gives the ...
... roles ( which included King Lear and Othello ) that there would be " no more young Hamlet . " An especially close relationship seems to have existed between Shakespeare and Burbage , who was four years Shakespeare's junior . An incident ...
... role , which was an immediate and enduring hit . Betterton played Hamlet for forty years , well into his seventies . Since Davenant's time , Hamlet has been produced in untold venues great and small . Kenneth Branagh's sumptuous 1996 ...
... role in the Ur - Hamlet under the name of Corambis , which he is called in Belleforest and in the first printed version of Shakespeare's play . ing " What is absolutely certain is that in the decade before Shakespeare wrote his Hamlet ...
... role of the ghost in Hamlet . It is tempting to imagine Will's face behind " the Visard of the ghost " crying something like what he would later render as , " If thou didst ever thy dear father love ... Revenge his foul and most ...
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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 |