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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... comes in well under the running time of the uncut Hamlet . A play so long and so old - written more than four hundred years ago - would seem of improba- ble interest to us . Furthermore , though it ends in mass violence , for much of ...
... come . Shakespeare sent back a note informing Burbage that William the Conqueror came before Richard III . Even if this story is apocryphal , its suggestion of playful but genuine friendship between Shakespeare and Burbage , the actor ...
... comes upon a kneeling Claudius , just after he has confessed guilt , in a gesture that suggests prayer . While Hamlet could easily kill the villainous king at this moment , he does not because , he reasons , killing Claudius at his ...
... come true , then altering the letter so that it commands the deaths of the retainers rather than himself . After the British king executes Feng's henchmen , and after a year's absence , Amleth returns to Denmark just as the court , at ...
... come true . For his success Hamblet is rewarded with gold that he melts into staves . The prince returns to Denmark just as the court , according to the instructions Hamblet had left with his mother , is celebrating his funeral . 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 |