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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... story goes , overheard this exchange and went to the lady's room early . The playwright was " at his game " when Burbage arrived and announced that Richard III had come . Shakespeare sent back a note informing Burbage that William the ...
... story was provided by a Danish historian , Saxo the Grammarian , writing in the twelfth century . Moreover , important aspects of Hamlet's character - his presumed madness , for example - date even farther back , to Roman character ...
... footnotes or endnotes , I offer a bibliographic essay at the end of Looking for Hamlet in which I catalogue and comment on my sources . ONE THE PREHISTORY OF HAMLET SAXO GRAMMATICUS The story presented Introduction 11.
... story of Hamlet took shape five hundred years before Shakespeare's play , from still far more ancient material . The earliest account of Hamlet was written in Latin by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus during the twelfth century ...
... story is told again , with much moralizing and small but significant alterations , by François de Belleforest in his Histories Tragiques in 1570 and translated into English in 1608 , five years after the first edition of Shakespeare's ...
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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 |