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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... most radical statement in the play , " but thinking makes it so . " This relocation from objective to subjective realms is expressed in figures of confinement — prisons , chapels , closets , a nutshell 8 LOOKING FOR HAMLET.
... figures within the Anglo - American and European traditions that have responded to those issues . Even so , I have by no means considered all important commentaries on the character and the play , and some readers will fault me on that ...
... figure , so central to Hamlet , probably entered the plot when the Danish material took the shape of a Senecan revenge play , a type of bloody and bombastic drama that was enormously popular in England in the 1580s , named after the ...
... 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 sources , feigned madness as a cover for his revenge . Since no trace of the Laertes ...
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| 13 | |
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 |