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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... speeches are its hallmark . Not only Hamlet's 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 ...
... speech in all of English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet rants and rails against her and all her sex as duplicitous whores . The scene abruptly switches to Hamlet's directions to the ...
... speeches , " Shakespeare's play contains , as far as I can tell , noth- ing that can really be called a set speech of a Senecan nature , which may suggest one manner in which Shakespeare , when he has Hamlet urge a naturalistic ...
... speeches , a feature Shakespeare's play notably lacks . It seems much more probable that Shakespeare reworked the old Hamlet play sometime between 1599 and 1602 . Some scholars ― James Shapiro , for example - place it in 1599 , the year ...
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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 |