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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... performed by an English troupe touring Germany during Shakespeare's lifetime . It was staged by the crew of Captain William Keeling aboard the Red Dragon off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1607 , a mere four years after its print debut ...
... performed before the King and his court , as a means of testing both the veracity of the ghost and the guilt of Claudius . Act Two ends with another of Hamlet's soliloquies , this one commencing with more self- loathing— “ O , what a ...
... performed by Shakespeare's acting company at the turn of the seventeenth century . Next , in a consideration of the great fifth act , I attempt to show why Hamlet the play is such a pivotal work : the fact that it relocates reality from ...
... performed . The Ur - Hamlet is perhaps the most painful absence in literature , an empty space that can be filled only with speculation . It is an untraceable umbra , an invisible halo around the play , as palpable and yet unknowable as ...
... performed by an English company touring Germany decades earlier , before 1626 in fact , and then again between 1660 and 1690. The opening is patently un - Shakespearean , a prologue in which Night and the Furies call for revenge against ...
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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 |