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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... character , Hamlet inspires countless theatergoers and readers to offer their own ideas about what drives him , while as a role , he offers actors a chance to infuse Shakespeare's superbly written dialogue with their own personal- ities ...
... characters - Claudius , Polonius , the visiting Players - take up an inordinate amount of time . Even the artistic merits of Hamlet have been questioned . None other than T. S. Eliot called it a failure . In Hamlet , Eliot argued ...
... character Hamlet , who has 1,506 lines , approximately 39 percent of the total lines of the play . The best minds of four centuries have pursued the character Hamlet in an effort to pin down his meaning , yet their findings have always ...
... character , spread like fire across Europe . Within a few years of its appearance in 1603 , there are records of Hamlet being performed in Paris and Moscow . Further evidence of Hamlet's early popularity can be seen in the number of ...
... characters - Hamlet , Laertes , Claudius , and Gertrude— are killed , and the nation of Denmark is left in the hands of the conquering Fortinbras , Prince of Norway . In Looking for Hamlet , I make the argument that Shakespeare's ...
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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 |