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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... Hamlet . A play so long and so old - written more than four hundred years ago - would seem of improba- ble interest to us . Furthermore , though it ends in mass violence , for much of Hamlet not much happens . With the exception of the ...
... age has seen Hamlet , to one degree or another , as a reflection of its own aspirations and neuroses . Yet Hamlet is more than the sum of his parts , or the nature of those reading him . He is , as history shows , something larger ...
... king and then the play - within - the - play itself , The Murder of Gonzago , which King Claudius interrupts just after the usurping murderer pours poison in the ear of the sleeping king , mirroring the death of King Hamlet . Claudius ...
... 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 brother ...
... Hamlet story by François Belleforest was published in French . In the 1580s , the saga of Hamlet was written as a play - now lost- probably by Thomas Kyd . Kyd's version , the so - called Old or Ur - Hamlet , was enormously popular on ...
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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 |