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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... early seven- teenth century , to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet in 1996 , and beyond . It is no great risk to say that Hamlet is without parallel , the greatest play ever written . None of the works of Sophocles or ...
... early as 1599 but probably in 1600 , with the thirty - something Richard Burbage , weighing in at 230 pounds , in the lead . Burbage is far from the lithe , tortured young man in black we generally conceive Hamlet to be . Indeed ...
... early . The playwright was " at his game " when Burbage arrived and announced that Richard III had come . Shakespeare sent back a note informing Burbage that William the Conqueror came before Richard III . Even if this story is ...
... early printing history of Shakespeare's play . Hamlet appeared in three different though related versions , two of which ( in 1603 and 1604 ) were printed during Shakespeare's lifetime ; the third appeared in 1623 , seven years after ...
... early nineteenth century reacted to Hamlet with a powerful collective grief , a grief that amounts to a lament for the child who dies within us as we age . In effect , Hamlet the character functions as a repository of lament and sadness ...
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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 |