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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... London stage at the beginning of Shakespeare's career , but was never printed . This lost version is perhaps the most important missing link in literary history . Clearly , the prehistory of Shakespeare's play , which shaped it in ...
... London's first public playhouse , opened in 1576 , and the primary venue for Lord Chamberlain's men . If Shakespeare did not create the character of Hamlet's father's ghost , he may have played that part in a production of the old ...
... London until the late 1580s , by which time the old Hamlet was already a staple of the London stage . As I men- tioned above , this old play seems to have been heavy on declamatory speeches , a feature Shakespeare's play notably lacks ...
... London residence , stung , seething , and stewing in embarrassment , paranoia , and anger . Over the coming months Essex solidified a coterie of powerful and disaffected noblemen — among them Shakespeare's patron Henry Wriothesley , the ...
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Inhalt
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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 |