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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... say that Hamlet is without parallel , the greatest play ever written . None of the works of Sophocles or Aristophanes , Seneca or Plautus , Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson , or any playwright to follow compares to Shakespeare's ...
... says in perhaps the most radical statement in the play , " but thinking makes it so . " This relocation from objective to subjective realms is expressed in figures of confinement — prisons , chapels , closets , a nutshell 8 LOOKING FOR ...
... say , or perhaps , bipolar . As the Western world becomes increasingly concerned with the operations of the mind , Hamlet assumes a more central position in our culture . An explosion of interest in Shakespeare's play accompanied the ...
... says in A Midsummer Night's Dream , that gives a local habitation and a name to what is dead or dying within us ... say that this pace has only increased since Levin published The Question of Hamlet in 1959. Given the enormous amount and ...
... says , little better than a mare , a brute beast . The debt , however indirect , of Shakespeare's 3.4 to this episode in Saxo is underscored when Amleth goes on to tell his mother that in order to escape treachery he has had to pretend ...
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 |