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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... murdered father , now occupied by his uncle , Claudius . On the third night Horatio , Hamlet's best friend from ... murder of his father to be performed before the King and his court , as a means of testing both the veracity of 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 ' calling for the lights unequivocally indicates his guilt ...
... murder , Ophelia's brother Laertes has returned to see his sister in her madness . Later a letter to Horatio arrives ... murdered and the woman they claim to have loved drowned — become mirror images of each other . As we shall see ...
... murdered by his brother Feng , who then marries his brother's wife , Queen Gerutha , and becomes king , thus ... murder to the hero . The ghost is a post - Danish addition to the story , appearing perhaps in the 1580s when the ...
... murder . " Belleforest asks , " Where shall a man find a more wicked and bold woman " whom “ we leave in the extremity of lasciviousness ? " As in Saxo , Belleforest's hero , here named Hamblet , hides behind the counterfeit of madness ...
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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 |