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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... King Lear and Othello ) that there would be " no more young Hamlet . " An especially close relationship seems to have existed between Shakespeare and Burbage , who was four years Shakespeare's junior . An incident recorded in 1602 ...
... king Claudius explains to a general counsel the warlike state of Denmark , and his marriage to Queen Gertrude , and gives permission to Laertes , Hamlet's future rival , to return to Paris , where Laertes is a student . He also attempts ...
... king and then the play - within - the - play itself , The Murder of Gonzago , which King Claudius interrupts just after the usurping murderer pours poison in the ear of the sleeping king , mirroring the death of King Hamlet . Claudius ...
... king commanding the execution of Hamlet . Meanwhile Ophelia , driven mad by the death of her father , appears distracted , singing snatches of old songs about loss and grief . Having learned of his father's murder , Ophelia's brother ...
... king of Denmark , is murdered by his brother Feng , who then marries his brother's wife , Queen Gerutha , and becomes king , thus depriving Horwendil's son , Amleth , of the throne . The fact that Horwendil's murder is com- mitted ...
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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 |