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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... avenge his death and Hamlet agrees to exact revenge . The busy first act concludes with the ghost leaving the stage , not to appear again for the better part of two acts . The second act opens with Polonius , the aged counselor to ...
... avenge his father's killers . Amleth's assumption of the guise of a madman clearly prefigures Hamlet's strategy in Shakespeare's play , and so is an aspect of the character that Shakespeare inherited from Saxo , if indirectly , since it ...
... avenge the death of his father ; she soon proves his loyal ally . Once the killing of the counselor is discovered , Fengon announces that Hamblet is to be exiled to England accompanied by two " faithful ministers . " Hamblet instructs ...
... avenge his murder . This must mean that , as in the Danish sources , the Claudius figure was the villain of the old play , the murderer of Hamlet's father . It's probable also that in the old play Hamlet , as in the Danish and French ...
... avenge the death of his father , Corambus . The King and Leonhardus plot to kill Hamlet , with the King suggesting , as he does in the first edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet , that the tip of the rapier be poisoned . The fourth act ...
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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 |