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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... madness . Later a letter to Horatio arrives from Hamlet explaining that he was taken captive by pirates who spared his life in return for favors from Claudius . Still later we will learn that Hamlet had altered the letter to the English ...
... madness , for example - date even farther back , to Roman character types . In 1570 , a heavily moralized version of the Hamlet story by François Belleforest was published in French . In the 1580s , the saga of Hamlet was written as a ...
... addition to the story , appearing perhaps in the 1580s when the legend was rendered as a stage play in a version that was never printed and thus is missing . After his father is killed , Amleth feigns madness to One The Prehistory of ...
... madness . All he said was of a piece with these follies ; all that he did savored of utter lethargy . " As part of this strategy , Amleth spends his time carving wooden stakes . When asked why , he replies cryptically that with these he ...
... madness / That I have uttered " —that is , that his madness has been a guise . Unmistakably , when Saxo writes that " [ w ] ith such reproaches , he rent the heart of his mother , and redeemed her to walk in the ways of virtue , " we ...
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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 |