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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... means of testing both the veracity of the ghost and the guilt of Claudius . Act Two ends with another of Hamlet's soliloquies , this one commencing with more self- loathing— “ O , what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! ” — and finishing ...
... means the case . Its origins go far back into Danish history . The first recorded version of the Hamlet story was provided by a Danish historian , Saxo the Grammarian , writing in the twelfth century . Moreover , important aspects of ...
... means of finding and knowing ourselves . But , of course , Hamlet the character is not merely an inert object — a mirror , to call upon a convenient and familiar metaphor , in which we see ourselves reflected . Indeed , to a remarkable ...
... means considered all important commentaries on the character and the play , and some readers will fault me on that account . I attempt to compensate for the short shrift given in the text of Looking for Hamlet to stage and film versions ...
... means , of course , that the Amleth leg- end has no need for a private means of revealing the nature of the murder to the hero . The ghost is a post - Danish addition to the story , appearing perhaps in the 1580s when the legend was ...
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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 |