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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... stage . At 212 minutes , William Wyler's screen epic Ben - Hur : A Tale of the Christ comes in well under the running time of the uncut Hamlet . A play so long and so old - written more than four hundred years ago - would seem of ...
... stages were the main venues for Hamlet in the seventeenth century , the play had also traveled far and wide in esoteric venues . A version of Hamlet , which survives in a manuscript from 1710 , was performed by an English troupe touring ...
... stage for Hamlet's meeting with his father's ghost , in which the ghost informs Hamlet privately that Claudius had murdered him while he slept . The ghost charges Hamlet to avenge his death and Hamlet agrees to exact revenge . The busy ...
... stage at the beginning of Shakespeare's career , but was never printed . This lost version is perhaps the most important missing link in literary history . Clearly , the prehistory of Shakespeare's play , which shaped it in innumerable ...
... stage versions increasing exponentially in the last hundred years . Clearly , academic and popular interests fuel each other . In the final chapter of Looking for Hamlet , I take up the personal search for Hamlet , one that has occupied ...
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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 |