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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... question , " is perhaps the most famous set speech in all of English literature . On its heels follows a misogynistic assault on Ophelia in which Hamlet rants and rails against her and all her sex as duplicitous whores . The scene ...
... Question of Hamlet in 1959. Given the enormous amount and variety of commentary on the play , any effort at providing a compre- hensive history of reception would have to be prodigious indeed . To the extent to which such a history ...
... question whether Shakespeare even knew these sto- ries of Hamlet as they appear in Saxo and Belleforest . This mystery remains because the path of transmission from the Danish story to Shakespeare is missing a vitally important link , a ...
... question that Shakespeare knew Belleforest's work - the Histoires Tragiques , enormously popular in France , was ... questions about Shakespeare's play - what it owed to its predecessors , how it took shape in Shakespeare's incomparable ...
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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 |