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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... comes in well under the running time of the uncut Hamlet . A play so long and so old - written more than four hundred years ago - would seem of improba- ble interest to us . Furthermore , though it ends in mass violence , for much of ...
... comes upon a kneeling Claudius , just after he has confessed guilt , in a gesture that suggests prayer . While Hamlet could easily kill the villainous king at this moment , he does not because , he reasons , killing Claudius at his ...
... comes from a manuscript dated October 27 , 1710 , but the play was 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 ...
... comes from a passage written by the pedant Gabriel Harvey on a blank half page of his volume of Chaucer's Works , which he purchased and signed in 1598 : " The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeare's Venus , & Adonis [ 1593 ] ...
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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 |