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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... Ophelia not to allow herself to be courted by Hamlet , with whom she seems to have a romantic relationship . Next , two more of Hamlet's friends , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , arrive at Elsinore . They have been recruited - how and ...
... 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 by a dumb show enacting the poison- ing of a king and then the play ...
... 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 Laertes has returned to see his sister in her madness ...
... Ophelia , though she is not called a daughter in the Danish saga ; the unnamed foster brother who warns the hero about the setup with the woman is a version of Hamlet's friend , Horatio ; the " counselor " killed , boiled , and fed to ...
... Ophelia enters and reports his cruel antics , followed by his angry confrontation with Ophelia , mirror- ing the second phase of Shakespeare's 3.1 . Next , Hamlet confides to Horatio that he's pretending madness , followed by 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 |