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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... century , to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet in 1996 , and beyond . It is no great risk to say that Hamlet ... centuries have pursued the character Hamlet in an effort to pin down his meaning , yet their findings have ...
... century , " she adds , " Hamlet continued to possess this strange futurity , still gesturing beyond its most recent site of reception .... " This extraordinary appeal is hardly limited to intellectuals , academic special- ists , and ...
... century . It appeared seven times ( 1603 , 1604 , 1611 , 1622 ?, 1623 , 1632 , and 1637 ) in the first half of the century . Six more editions ( 1664 , two in 1676 , 1683 , 1685 , and 1695 ) were published in the second half , making a ...
... century . Moreover , important aspects of Hamlet's character - his presumed madness , for example - date even farther back , to Roman character types . In 1570 , a heavily moralized version of the Hamlet story by François Belleforest ...
... century . The high period of European Romanticism during the early nineteenth century reacted to Hamlet with a powerful collective grief , a grief that amounts to a lament for the child who dies within us as we age . In effect ...
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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 |