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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... Shakespeare's Hamlet has attracted audiences across the world for nearly four hundred years . As a character , Hamlet inspires countless theatergoers and readers to offer their own ideas about what drives him , while as a role , he ...
... Shakespeare Library 3B David Garrick as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library 4B Edmund Kean as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library 5B Edwin Booth as Hamlet By permission of the Folger Shakespeare ...
Marvin W. Hunt. INTRODUCTION illiam Shakespeare's Hamlet is an unlikely masterpiece - crowded , ungainly , gratuitous ... Shakespeare's reach exceeded his grasp . Eliot was unable to find what he called " objective correlatives " -events ...
... Shakespeare's achievement in Hamlet . Hamlet is the most frequently staged not only of Shakespeare's plays but , as far as I can tell , of any play written in any language . From 1879 through 2004 Hamlet was produced eighty - two times ...
... Shakespeare's audience and , presumably , Shakespeare himself . Indeed , the original Hamlet was a smash , and Burbage remained synonymous with the lead part for the rest of his life . Upon his death in 1619 , an elegist lamented ...
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 |