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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... Plautus , Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson , or any playwright to follow compares to 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 ...
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... Plautus , 2 , 24 , 46 Plays of William Shakespeare , The ( Steevens ) , 97 Poe , Edgar Allan , 129 Poems of Alexander Pope , The ( ed . Butt ) , 216 Poetaster , The ( Jonson ) , 29 Political Shakespeare : New Essays in Cultural ...
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 |