Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10 dec. 2007 - 256 sidor 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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... 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 Hamlet not much happens . With the exception of the ...
... Hamlet , may be close to the truth . If English stages were the main venues for Hamlet in the seventeenth century , the play had also traveled far and wide in esoteric venues . A version of Hamlet , which survives in a manuscript from ...
Marvin W. Hunt. While away at university Hamlet learns of his father's death and returns home to find that his mother has married his dead father's brother . Hamlet doesn't know that for two nights running the ghost of his father has ...
... Hamlet's soliloquies . This one , beginning " To be , or not to be — that is the question , " is perhaps the most famous set speech in all of English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet ...
... Hamlet story was provided by a Danish historian , Saxo the Grammarian , writing in the twelfth century . Moreover , important aspects of Hamlet's character - his presumed madness , for example - date even farther back , to Roman ...
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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 |