Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10 dec 2007 - 256 pagina's 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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... friends Isaac Epps , Mike Massey , David Sanders , David Williamson , Carol Mclaurin , Tom Eamon , Phil and Leslie ... friend Mark Taylor saved me from many errors and contributed as many ideas and observations along the way . I thank ...
... friendship between Shakespeare and Burbage , the actor who first played 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 ...
... friends greet each other , and Horatio tells Hamlet about the ghost's visitations . This conversation sets the stage for Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost , in which the ghost informs Hamlet privately that Claudius had murdered ...
... friends to the end , coming upon a gravedigger shov- eling a fresh grave . This is to be Ophelia's final apartment , of course , though Hamlet and Horatio , newly arrived at Elsinore , do not at first know that . Hamlet and the ...
... friend who had been " nourished " with the prince warns Hamblet of the trap . Belleforest adds a significant detail about this woman , that " from her infancy [ she ] loved and favored " Hamblet , " whom she loved more than herself ...
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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 |