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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... Skull : Relocating Reality in Hamlet 71 Four Dead Son Hamlet 85 The Man in Black : Gallery One Five Contrarians at the Gate 93 Six Hamlet among the Romantics : A Brief History of Grief 105 Seven " This Distracted Globe " : Hamlet and ...
... skull , death , stink , horror . This darkly profound scene , the supreme thematic moment in Hamlet , sets up the gory final movement in which four remaining principal characters - Hamlet , Laertes , Claudius , and Gertrude— are killed ...
... skull , this finite container of infinite reaches of memory , thought , dream , desire , fear , all that can be felt and said . The remainder of Looking for Hamlet offers a history of reception , exploring how generations of readers and ...
... skulls might well appear , " the ground made more fertile by human blood . Next it is shown that their beer was brewed from river water . Nearby , the King's men dig into the riverbed and find " a great store of swords and rusty armor ...
... skull of the jester Yorick , marveling at " what base uses we may return , Horatio " : Why may not imagination trace ... skull ; it is also about the foulest of odors . Holding Yorick's skull , Hamlet asks Horatio , " Dost thou ...
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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 |