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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... Gertrude die within the span of a couple of minutes . But until 3.4 , Hamlet the play is like its protagonist , more talk than action . Earlier , when Polonius - a fatuous though nonetheless dangerous councilor who plays at being a spy ...
... Gertrude's remark in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that her son is " fat and scant of breath " could well be a com- ment on Burbage's weight . Despite the dissonance between the burly , middle - aged Burbage and our image of ...
... Gertrude , and gives permission to Laertes , Hamlet's future rival , to return to Paris , where Laertes is a student . He also attempts to console or placate the grieving Hamlet , addressing the prince as " Our chiefest courtier ...
... Gertrude , Polonius , Rosencrantz , and Guildenstern - but moves quickly to another of Hamlet's soliloquies . This one , beginning " To be , or not to be — that is the question , " is perhaps the most famous set speech in all of English ...
... Gertrude— are killed , and the nation of Denmark is left in the hands of the conquering Fortinbras , Prince of Norway . In Looking for Hamlet , I make the argument that Shakespeare's greatest tragedy enacts a radical and unprecedented ...
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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 |