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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... course , careful readings and imaginative productions of Hamlet refute every complaint lodged against it . If Hamlet is long on talk and short on action , audiences have delighted in it from the beginning , crowding in to see Hamlet ...
... course , his name . Shakespeare , the story goes , overheard this exchange and went to the lady's room early . The playwright was " at his game " when Burbage arrived and announced that Richard III had come . Shakespeare sent back a ...
... course , though Hamlet and Horatio , newly arrived at Elsinore , do not at first know that . Hamlet and the gravedigger have a ghastly but brilliant conversation about human remains , the emblem of the skull , death , stink , horror ...
... course , Hamlet the character is not merely an inert object — a mirror , to call upon a convenient and familiar metaphor , in which we see ourselves reflected . Indeed , to a remarkable degree Hamlet has shaped what we are . Because it ...
... course , that the Amleth leg- end has no need for a private means of revealing the nature of the murder to the hero . The ghost is a post - Danish addition to the story , appearing perhaps in the 1580s when the legend was rendered as a ...
Contenido
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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 |