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 / Hamlet touches the heart and mind in and at depths , that no other play can match . It speaks to us directly across history and represents , at the deepest levels , a shaping fantasy , as Shakespeare's Theseus says in A ...
... Hamlet did not originate with Shakespeare . In order to appreciate Shakespeare's achievement , we must therefore bring to light what we can of the material Shakespeare inherited and from which he produced his play . Indeed , as will ...
... Hamlet's strategy in Shakespeare's play , and so is an aspect of the character that Shakespeare inherited from Saxo , if indirectly , since it is unlikely that Shakespeare had access to Saxo's version . Meanwhile Feng , suspecting that ...
... Shakespeare's plot continues to follow Saxo rather closely until the fifth act of Hamlet , the Graveyard Scene , which owes nothing to Saxo's version , and the duel with Laertes , who has no parallel in Danish saga . When Feng discovers ...
... Shakespeare's Hamlet appeared in print . From Belleforest we gain new details that have a significant bearing on Shakespeare's play . We learn from Belleforest that Fengon , the usurping brother , had " incestuously abused " the Queen ...
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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 |