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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... intervention , to confess her sins to heaven , begging her " go not to my uncle's bed . " The act concludes with Hamlet dragging the body of Polonius offstage . In the fourth act , the killing of Polonius is 6 LOOKING FOR HAMLET.
... body into pieces , which he boils and throws into a sewer , where the eavesdropper's remains are eaten by swine . While Shakespeare's Hamlet doesn't abuse Polonius ' corpse this way , his dragging the body offstage with the words , " I ...
... body to pieces , boils them , and dumps the parts into a privy where they are eaten by hogs . Having disposed of the counselor , Hamblet then turns his attentions to his mother , berating her in much harsher terms than Saxo's Amleth ...
... body of a " thief that had been hanged for his demerits . " The flesh of animals who have fed on men is eaten by men . Just as Hamblet had fed Fengon's counselor , the prototype of Polonius , to hogs , in England Hamblet as guest of the ...
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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 |