Looking for HamletA 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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... action until the fourth scene of act three , when the Ghost again appears , now for the final time . At this point the pace picks up and the plot steadily moves to a violent crescendo in the great final scene of the play , when Hamlet ...
... action , audiences have delighted in it from the beginning , crowding in to see Hamlet from the time of Richard Burbage , who played the first Hamlet in the early seven- teenth century , to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Hamlet in ...
... action rises to an angry crescendo as Hamblet turns his mother's atten- tion to his own unfortunate circumstance : " the face of a madman serveth to cover my gallant countenance ; and the gestures of a fool The Prehistory of Hamlet 17.
... action , amounting to an attempt to overthrow Elizabeth . When the uprising failed , Essex was confined to the tower , stripped of his lucrative subsidies , tried and convicted of treason , and sentenced to die . On February 25 , 1601 ...
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Contents
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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 |