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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... fool , " which might have averted the catastrophe , the ghost of Hamlet's father appears for the final time . Visible this time to Hamlet only , the Ghost reminds his son that he has still not fulfilled his promise of revenge and ...
... fool , really is the Melancholic Dane . He is clinically depressed , we would say , or perhaps , bipolar . As the Western world becomes increasingly concerned with the operations of the mind , Hamlet assumes a more central position in ...
... fool to rectify a circumstance that his mother was complicit in creating . In this we might hear Hamlet's insistence to Gertrude that " It is not madness / That I have uttered " —that is , that his madness has been a guise ...
... fool , which I discuss in another chapter , may be the deepest and most ancient be the deepest and most ancient aspect of Hamlet's character , a concept registered in the name Amleth , which etymologically suggests the notion of the fool ...
... This action rises to an angry crescendo as Hamblet turns his mother's atten- tion to his own unfortunate circumstance : " the face of a madman serveth to cover my gallant countenance ; and the gestures of a fool The Prehistory of Hamlet 17.
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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 |