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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... prince as " Our chiefest courtier , cousin , and our son . ” Outraged by the stain of what he perceives to be incest - his father's brother marrying his mother - Hamlet retreats into the shadows and contemplates suicide in a soliloquy ...
... Prince of Norway . In Looking for Hamlet , I make the argument that Shakespeare's greatest tragedy enacts a radical and unprecedented internalization of reality . I then attempt to show how the resulting sense of a palpable interiority ...
... prince . Now , more than four centuries after it first appeared in print , Hamlet should seem very old . And in some senses it does . Many aspects of the drama - the sword play , the Ghost , the splendidly ornate language - may seem ...
... prince to England in the company of two retainers who carry a letter to the British king instructing him to have the hero killed . Amleth , however , wins the confidence and trust of the king by issuing a number of prophesies that come ...
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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 |