Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10. 12. 2007 - 256 strán (strany) 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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... Danish and English sources , but the two scenes of the final act , which are probably wholly Shakespeare's inventions , are the most powerful of the play . The first has Hamlet and Horatio , friends to the end , coming upon a ...
... Danish history . The first recorded version of the Hamlet story was provided by a Danish historian , Saxo the Grammarian , writing in the twelfth century . Moreover , important aspects of Hamlet's character - his presumed madness , for ...
... Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus during the twelfth century . Saxo lays out the general plot and characters that eventually evolve into Shakespeare's Hamlet . His story proceeds this way . Horwendil , king of Denmark , is murdered by ...
... Danish saga . When Feng discovers that Amleth has eluded his traps , he exiles the young prince to England in the company of two retainers who carry a letter to the British king instructing him to have the hero killed . Amleth , however ...
... Danish saga ; the unnamed foster brother who warns the hero about the setup with the woman is a version of Hamlet's friend , Horatio ; the " counselor " killed , boiled , and fed to swine is the prototype of Polonius ( called Corambis ...
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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 |