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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... readers to offer their own ideas about what drives him , while as a role , he offers actors a chance to infuse Shakespeare's superbly written dialogue with their own personal- ities . Taking readers on a tour of Hamlet's world and his ...
... readings and imaginative productions of Hamlet refute every complaint lodged against it . If Hamlet is long on talk and short on action , audiences have delighted in it from the beginning , crowding in to see Hamlet from the time of ...
... reading him . He is , as history shows , something larger , more complex , and more elusive than anyone who confronts him . " Hamlet remains proleptically in tune with the latest present , " writes Professor Margreta de Grazia . " At ...
... reader or viewer may assume that Hamlet origi- nated with Shakespeare , but this is by no means the case . Its origins go far back into Danish history . The first recorded version of the Hamlet story was provided by a Danish historian ...
... readers and viewers have interpreted Hamlet the play and Hamlet the prince . Now , more than four centuries after it first appeared in print , Hamlet should seem very old . And in some senses it does . Many aspects of the drama - the ...
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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 |