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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... Hamlet as young , pale , brooding , and sexy , Burbage greatly pleased Shakespeare's audience and , presumably , Shakespeare himself . Indeed , the original Hamlet was a smash , and Burbage remained synonymous with the lead part for the ...
... Hamlet before the eighteenth century . During the Restoration , William Davenant - rumored to have been Shakespeare's natural child - produced an abridged version of Hamlet , with Thomas Betterton in the lead role , which was an ...
... Shakespeare inherited most of Hamlet , both plot and charac- ters , from Danish and English sources , but the two scenes of the final act , which are probably wholly Shakespeare's inventions , are the most powerful of the play . The ...
... Shakespeare's play . The typical reader or viewer may assume that 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 ...
... Hamlet offers a history of reception , exploring how generations of readers and viewers have interpreted ... Shakespeare's play accompanied the formalization of the study of psychology in the nineteenth century , and with the ...
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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 |