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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... actors a chance to infuse Shakespeare's superbly written dialogue with their own personal- ities . Taking readers on a tour of Hamlet's world and his troubled mind , Marvin W. Hunt gets to the heart of what gives the play its power ...
... actor - women as well as men - who has aspired to greatness has played the young man in black . Hamlet opened one afternoon at the Globe Theatre , perhaps as early as 1599 but probably in 1600 , with the thirty - something Richard ...
... actor who first played Hamlet , may be close to the truth . If English stages were the main venues for Hamlet in the seventeenth century , the play had also traveled far and wide in esoteric venues . A version of Hamlet , which survives ...
... actors arrives at Elsinore . Conveniently , Hamlet has met these " tragedians of the city " before , and he enlists them now to stage a version of the murder of his father to be performed before the King and his court , as a means of ...
... acting company at the turn of the seventeenth century . Next , in a consideration of the great fifth act , I attempt to show why Hamlet the play is such a pivotal work : the fact that it relocates reality from outside the human mind to ...
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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 |