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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... by fast - food toys . In case you haven't read it recently , I offer a summary of the play , which , given its prolix nature , isn't easy . While away at university Hamlet learns of his father's death 4 LOOKING FOR HAMLET.
... father's brother . Hamlet doesn't know that for two nights running the ghost of his father has appeared silently to watch- men stationed on the battlements of Elsinore , the castle of his murdered father , now occupied by his uncle ...
... father . All the while Polonius , fatuous and yet sinister at the same time , eavesdrops behind an arras . When he hears the terrified Queen cry , " What wilt thou do ? Thou wilt not murder me - Help , ho ! " Polonius cries out and ...
... father , appears distracted , singing snatches of old songs about loss and grief . Having learned of his father's murder , Ophelia's brother Laertes has returned to see his sister in her madness . Later a letter to Horatio arrives from ...
... , appearing perhaps in the 1580s when the legend was rendered as a stage play in a version that was never printed and thus is missing . After his father is killed , Amleth feigns madness to One The Prehistory of Hamlet.
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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 |