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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... English departments rad- ically altered their curricula to include lesser known ( though important ) writers and other fields of discourse - rhetoric , scientific writing , and digital communica- tion - virtually every college graduate ...
... English stages were the main venues for Hamlet in the seventeenth century , the play had also traveled far and wide in esoteric venues . A version of Hamlet , which survives in a manuscript from 1710 , was performed by an English troupe ...
... English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet rants and rails against her and all her sex as duplicitous whores . The scene abruptly switches to Hamlet's directions to the players followed ...
... English king commanding the execution of Hamlet . Meanwhile Ophelia , driven mad by the death of her father , appears distracted , singing snatches of old songs about loss and grief . Having learned of his father's murder , Ophelia's ...
... English in 1608 , five years after the first edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet appeared in print . From Belleforest we gain new details that have a significant bearing on Shakespeare's play . We learn from Belleforest that Fengon , the ...
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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 |