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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... suggests prayer . While Hamlet could easily kill the villainous king at this moment , he does not because , he reasons , killing Claudius at his prayers would send the murdering , usurping , incestuous king to heaven . This is a fateful ...
... suggests the notion of the fool or idiot . Yet the character Amleth / Hamblet clearly strategi- cally employs , as his ancestor Junius Brutus had , the appearance of folly as a supremely wise and effective means of evading his murdering ...
... suggests that many if not all of these new elements were introduced to the Hamlet story when it took the shape of a drama in the missing Ur - Hamlet . The Ghost is the most significant aspect of Shakespeare's play not found in the ...
... suggest one manner in which Shakespeare , when he has Hamlet urge a naturalistic performance style , is signaling an ... suggests that Shakespeare had not yet written , or at least not pro- duced , it by 1598. It would follow , then ...
... suggesting , as he does in the first edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet , that the tip of the rapier be poisoned . The fourth act concludes with Ophelia entering distracted once again , this time carrying flowers . Near the begin- ning of ...
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 |