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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... powerful of the play . The first has Hamlet and Horatio , 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 ...
... powerful collective grief , a grief that amounts to a lament for the child who dies within us as we age . In effect , Hamlet the character functions as a repository of lament and sadness , an emblem of lost youth and potential , of what ...
... powerful scene , is centered on the most terrifying of sights , the human skull ; it is also about the foulest of odors . Holding Yorick's skull , Hamlet asks Horatio , " Dost thou think Alexander looked ' o The Prehistory of Hamlet 21.
... powerful and disaffected noblemen — among them Shakespeare's patron Henry Wriothesley , the Third Earl of Southampton - to oppose the Queen . The conspirators committed themselves to a plainly treasonous course of action , amounting to ...
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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 |