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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... seem of improba- ble interest to us . Furthermore , though it ends in mass violence , for much of Hamlet not much happens . With the exception of the Ghost's appearances in the first act , Hamlet is slight on action until the fourth ...
... seems to have existed between Shakespeare and Burbage , who was four years Shakespeare's junior . An incident recorded in 1602 , around the time when Hamlet was first produced , tells of a female audience member so smitten by Burbage's ...
... seems to have a romantic relationship . Next , two more of Hamlet's friends , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , arrive at Elsinore . They have been recruited - how and from where is not explained - to pry from Hamlet the source of his dark ...
... seem very old . And in some senses it does . Many aspects of the drama - the sword play , the Ghost , the splendidly ornate language - may seem antiquated today . But from another perspective , Hamlet shows no indication of aging . In ...
... seem- ingly close , in a cultural , historical , and personal sense . At the same time that we search for someone or something else , we are also hunting for ourselves , constantly engaged in an internal search for who we are as ...
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 |