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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... tell , of any play written in any language . From 1879 through 2004 Hamlet was produced eighty - two times by the Royal Shakespeare Company and its pred- ecessor , the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre . This is not to mention countless ...
... An incident recorded in 1602 , around the time when Hamlet was first produced , tells of a female audience member so smitten by Burbage's performance as Richard III that she asked Burbage to call at her room under the name of Introduction ...
... 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 him while he slept . The ghost charges ...
... of Shakespeare's 3.4 to this episode in Saxo is underscored when Amleth goes on to tell his mother that in order to escape treachery he has had to pretend madness , that he has had to make himself 14 LOOKING FOR HAMLET.
... telling of his sojourn in England , plies the courtiers with alcohol . When they are drunk and incapacitated , Amleth pulls down the wall hangings , covering the sleepers , ties them together with the staves he had carved and sets the ...
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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 |