Looking for HamletSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 10 Des 2007 - 256 halaman 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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... become mirror images of each other . As we shall see , Shakespeare inherited most of Hamlet , both plot and charac- ters , from Danish and English sources , but the two scenes of the final act , which are probably wholly Shakespeare's ...
... becomes increasingly concerned with the operations of the mind , Hamlet assumes a more central position in our culture . An explosion of interest in Shakespeare's play accompanied the formalization of the study of psychology in the ...
... become clear as we go along , commentators who ignore Shakespeare's source material are sometimes led to make ... becomes king , thus depriving Horwendil's son , Amleth , of the throne . The fact that Horwendil's murder is com ...
... becomes , Saxo writes , " utterly listless and unclean , flinging himself on the ground and bespattering his person with foul and filthy dirt . His discolored face and visage smutched with slime denoted foolish and grotesque madness ...
... becomes incipiently a drama , when historiography becomes theater , a destiny that will be fulfilled by Shakespeare , who will exuberantly explore the nature of playing and contrast various forms of acting with his own actor - hero's ...
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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 |