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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... hand in crafting them . I wish also to thank Gene Melton , who oversaw the selection , secured permissions for the illustrations , and compiled the index . The errors and shortcomings that remain are my own , for which I ask forgive ...
... hands of the conquering Fortinbras , Prince of Norway . In Looking for Hamlet , I make the argument that Shakespeare's greatest tragedy enacts a radical and unprecedented internalization of reality . I then attempt to show how the ...
... hand , from the endeavor to be wholly original . " It is safe to say that this pace has only increased since Levin published The Question of Hamlet in 1959. Given the enormous amount and variety of commentary on the play , any effort at ...
... king of Denmark , returns to England , wins the hand of the Queen of Scotland , and ultimately is betrayed and killed in battle . FRANÇOIS DE BELLEFOREST After Saxo but before Shakespeare , the The Prehistory of Hamlet 15.
... hands Denmark is commended in Shakespeare's play , doesn't appear at the end of the German version . There is no equivalent to the Gravedigger Scene , nor is there a gravedigger scene in any of the sources and influences of ...
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 |