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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... present , " writes Professor Margreta de Grazia . " At the end of the twentieth century , " she adds , " Hamlet continued to possess this strange futurity , still gesturing beyond its most recent site of reception .... " This ...
... present absence we pursue as a means of finding and knowing ourselves . But , of course , Hamlet the character is not merely an inert object — a mirror , to call upon a convenient and familiar metaphor , in which we see ourselves ...
... present in Shakespeare's play that is missing from the Danish sources : the ghost of Hamlet's father . In 3.4 the ghost appears only to Hamlet , not to his mother . This creates for Gertrude the appearance that Hamlet is hallucinating ...
... present tense , suggest a date for Hamlet later than September 1599 but before February 1601 , when the Earl of Essex's errant career came crashing down in humiliating cascade of defeat , disgrace , treason , and execution . His demise ...
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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 |