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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... version of chapter four . The incomparable Amy Knox Brown , herself a fine writer , edited the first draft of this book with an exacting yet sympa- thetic eye - actually she has two of them . If there are felicitous moments in Looking ...
... Hamlet from the time of Richard Burbage , who played the first Hamlet in the early seven- teenth century , to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet in 1996 , and beyond . It is no great risk to say that Hamlet is without parallel ...
... version of Hamlet , with Thomas Betterton in the lead role , which was an immediate and enduring hit . Betterton played Hamlet for forty years , well into his seventies . Since Davenant's time , Hamlet has been produced in untold venues ...
... Hamlet . Then , a troupe of traveling actors arrives at Elsinore . Conveniently , Hamlet has met these " tragedians of the city " before , and he enlists them now to stage a version of the murder of his father to be performed before the ...
... Hamlet origi- nated with Shakespeare , but this is by no means the case . Its origins go far back into Danish history . The first recorded version of the Hamlet story was provided by a Danish historian , Saxo the Grammarian , writing ...
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 |