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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... evidence of Hamlet's early popularity can be seen in the number of times it was printed during the seventeenth century . It appeared seven times ( 1603 , 1604 , 1611 , 1622 ?, 1623 , 1632 , and 1637 ) in the first half of the century ...
... evidence 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 ...
... evidence , which I will discuss later , that it featured a ghostly father who commanded his son to avenge his murder . This must mean that , as in the Danish sources , the Claudius figure was the villain of the old play , the murderer ...
... evidence of an apparently non - Shakespearean play about Hamlet is offered by Philip Henslowe , the manager of the Lord Admiral's Men , who listed a play by that name staged at Newinton Butts , a playhouse across the Thames in Southwark ...
... Evidence of what the Ur - Hamlet contained is provided by a German play from the seventeenth century , Der Bestrafte Brudermord oder Prinz Hamlet aus Dannemark , translated as Fratricide Punished . The text comes from a manuscript dated ...
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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 |