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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... Design by Newgen Imaging Systems ( P ) Ltd. , Chennai , India . First edition : December 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America . List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction CONTENTS iv vii 1 One.
... printed during the seventeenth century . It appeared seven times ( 1603 , 1604 , 1611 , 1622 ?, 1623 , 1632 , and 1637 ) in the first half of the century . Six more editions ( 1664 , two in 1676 , 1683 , 1685 , and 1695 ) were published ...
... printing history of Shakespeare's play . Hamlet appeared in three different though related versions , two of which ( in 1603 and 1604 ) were printed during Shakespeare's lifetime ; the third appeared in 1623 , seven years after his ...
... 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 One The Prehistory of Hamlet.
... printed and so had no chance of surviving the centuries . This lost play is without a doubt the most important missing document in Shakespeare studies . Discovering the Ur - Hamlet would provide answers to vital questions about ...
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 |