Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M12 10 - 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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... Horatio , Hamlet's best friend from college , makes his appearance . Horatio joins the watch and the ghost appears again . Meanwhile , inside Elsinore , the new king Claudius explains to a general counsel the warlike state of Denmark ...
... Horatio , friends to the end , coming upon a gravedigger shov- eling a fresh grave . This is to be Ophelia's final apartment , of course , though Hamlet and Horatio , newly arrived at Elsinore , do not at first know that . Hamlet and ...
... Horatio ; the " counselor " killed , boiled , and fed to swine is the prototype of Polonius ( called Corambis in Belleforest's Histoires tragiques and in the first edition of Shakespeare's play ) ; the two retainers who accompany the ...
... Horatio " : Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till ' a find it stopping a bunghole ? HORATIO : ' Twere to consider too curiously , to consider so . HAMLET : No , faith , not a jot , but to follow him thither with ...
Marvin W. Hunt. Horatio , " Dost thou think Alexander looked ' o this fashion i ' th ' earth ? " " E'en so , " Horatio replies . " And smelt so ? Pah ! " Hamlet exclaims , throwing down the death's head . If much of the content and tone ...
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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 |