Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10/12/2007 - 256 من الصفحات 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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... perhaps as early as 1599 but probably in 1600 , with the thirty - something Richard Burbage , weighing in at 230 pounds , in the lead . Burbage is far from the lithe , tortured young man in black we generally conceive Hamlet to be ...
... perhaps the most famous set speech in all of English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet rants and rails against her and all her sex as duplicitous whores . The scene abruptly switches to ...
... perhaps the most important missing link in literary history . Clearly , the prehistory of Shakespeare's play , which shaped it in innumerable and irrecoverable ways , is essential to confront at the outset of the search for Hamlet . In ...
... perhaps , bipolar . As the Western world becomes increasingly concerned with the operations of the mind , Hamlet assumes a more central position in our culture . An explosion of interest in Shakespeare's play accompanied the ...
... to the story , 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 |