Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10.12.2007 - 256 Seiten 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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... Ghost's appearances in the first act , Hamlet is slight on action until the fourth scene of act three , when the Ghost again appears , now for the final time . At this point the pace picks up and the plot steadily moves to a violent ...
... ghost of his father has appeared silently to watch- men stationed on the battlements of Elsinore , the castle of his murdered father , now occupied by his uncle , Claudius . On the third night Horatio , Hamlet's best friend from college ...
... ghost of Hamlet's father appears for the final time . Visible this time to Hamlet only , the Ghost reminds his son that he has still not fulfilled his promise of revenge and commands him to be gentle with his mother , to " leave her to ...
... Ghost , the splendidly ornate language - may seem antiquated today . But from another perspective , Hamlet shows no indication of aging . In fact , it achieves the opposite . One of the implicit claims of this book is that Hamlet is a ...
... ghost is a post - Danish addition 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 ...
Inhalt
13 | |
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 |