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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... revenge . The busy first act concludes with the ghost leaving the stage , not to appear again for the better part of two acts . The second act opens with Polonius , the aged counselor to Claudius , warning his daughter Ophelia not to ...
... revenge and commands him to be gentle with his mother , to " leave her to heaven . " The Ghost disappears and Hamlet urges his mother , in a tone only slightly less shrill than before the Ghost's intervention , to confess her sins to ...
... revenge against Hamlet , as the two rivals - their fathers murdered and the woman they claim to have loved drowned — become mirror images of each other . As we shall see , Shakespeare inherited most of Hamlet , both plot and charac ...
... revenge against Feng . Amleth becomes , Saxo writes , " utterly listless and unclean , flinging himself on the ground and bespattering his person with foul and filthy dirt . His discolored face and visage smutched with slime denoted ...
... revenge , but his prototype Amleth looks forward to a remarkable career after the killing of Feng . After cleans- ing the Danish court of a corrupt regime , he is made king of Denmark , returns to England , wins the hand of the Queen of ...
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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 |