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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... remark in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that her son is " fat and scant of breath " could well be a com- ment on Burbage's weight . Despite the dissonance between the burly , middle - aged Burbage and our image of Hamlet as young ...
... remark about “ the Visard of the ghost which cried so miserably at the Theatre like an oyster wife , Hamlet revenge . " Tradition has it that Shakespeare himself played the role of the ghost in Hamlet . It is tempting to imagine Will's ...
... remarks , which speak of Essex in the present tense , suggest a date for Hamlet later than September 1599 but before February 1601 , when the Earl of Essex's errant career came crashing down in humiliating cascade of defeat , disgrace ...
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Índice
| 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 |