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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... scene of act three , when the Ghost again appears , now for the final time . At this point the pace picks up and the plot steadily moves to a violent crescendo in the great final scene of the play , when Hamlet , Laertes , Claudius ...
... scene , the two friends greet each other , and Horatio tells Hamlet about the ghost's visitations . This conversation sets the stage for Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost , in which the ghost informs Hamlet privately that ...
... scene abruptly switches to Hamlet's directions to the players followed by a dumb show enacting the poison- ing of a king and then the play - within - the - play itself , The Murder of Gonzago , which King Claudius interrupts just after ...
... scenes of the final act , which are probably wholly Shakespeare's inventions , are the most powerful of the play ... scene , the supreme thematic moment in Hamlet , sets up the gory final movement in which four remaining principal ...
... Scene , which owes nothing to Saxo's version , and the duel with Laertes , who has no parallel in Danish saga . When Feng discovers that Amleth has eluded his traps , he exiles the young prince to England in the company of two retainers ...
Índice
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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 |