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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... soliloquies , but long monologues by other characters - Claudius , Polonius , the visiting Players - take up an inordinate amount of time . Even the artistic merits of Hamlet have been questioned . None other than T. S. Eliot called it ...
... soliloquy that quickly transforms itself into a rant against his mother's inces- tuous conduct and then a harangue ... soliloquies , this one commencing with more self- loathing— “ O , what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! ” — and ...
... soliloquies . This one , beginning " To be , or not to be — that is the question , " is perhaps the most famous set speech in all of English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet rants and ...
... employs the imagery of bestiality , which permeates Shakespeare's play from early to late . In 1.2 , his first soliloquy , Hamlet laments that " a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would The Prehistory of Hamlet 19.
... soliloquies , the gravedigger scene - are of particular importance in the search for Hamlet . The counselor Corambis in Belleforest , for example , has no son , so at some later point in the evolution of the story the character of ...
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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 |