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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... important ) writers and other fields of discourse - rhetoric , scientific writing , and digital communica- tion - virtually every college graduate read ( or was supposed to have read ) Hamlet . As has been often noted , the play Hamlet ...
... history of the West , making Hamlet the single most important work in constructing who we are , especially in how we understand our psychological , intellectual , and emotional beings . I begin with an Introduction 7.
... important aspects of Hamlet's character - his presumed madness , for example - date even farther back , to Roman character types . In 1570 , a heavily moralized version of the Hamlet story by François Belleforest was published in French ...
... important commentaries on the character and the play , and some readers will fault me on that account . I attempt to compensate for the short shrift given in the text of Looking for Hamlet to stage and film versions of the play through ...
... important : it may stand as the moment when the saga of Hamblet becomes incipiently a drama , when historiography becomes theater , a destiny that will be fulfilled by Shakespeare , who will exuberantly explore the nature of playing and ...
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 |