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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... Queen 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 ...
... Queen cry , " What wilt thou do ? Thou wilt not murder me - Help , ho ! " Polonius cries out and Hamlet , mistaking him for the King , stabs the counselor through the curtain , another point of no return . Arriving too late to prevent ...
... Queen's report that Ophelia has drowned herself . The motivation is now in place for Laertes ' own revenge against Hamlet , as the two rivals - their fathers murdered and the woman they claim to have loved drowned — become mirror images ...
... Queen Gerutha , and becomes king , thus depriving Horwendil's son , Amleth , of the throne . The fact that Horwendil's murder is com- mitted openly , known to all , is significant . It means , of course , that the Amleth leg- end has no ...
... is made king of Denmark , returns to England , wins the hand of the Queen of Scotland , and ultimately is betrayed and killed in battle . FRANÇOIS DE BELLEFOREST After Saxo but before Shakespeare , the The Prehistory of Hamlet 15.
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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 |