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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... ( appears between pages 92 and 93 ) Courtesy of the Royal Library , Copenhagen 2A Amblet Courtesy of the National Library of Sweden 3A John Philip Kemble as Hamlet By Sir Thomas Lawrence . The Harvard Theatre Collection 4A Herbert ...
... ( appears between pages 164 and 165 ) By permission of the Dulwich Picture Gallery 2B Thomas Betterton as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library 3B David Garrick as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library 4B ...
... appears , now for the final time . At this point the pace picks up and the plot steadily moves to a violent crescendo in the great final scene of the play , when Hamlet , Laertes , Claudius , and Gertrude die within the span of a couple ...
... appears again . Meanwhile , inside Elsinore , the new king Claudius explains to a general counsel the warlike state ... appear again for the better part of two acts . The second act opens with Polonius , the aged counselor to Claudius ...
... 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 heaven . " The Ghost ...
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 |