Title: Looking for Hamlet /
Authors: Hunt, Marvin W.
Date: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Physical description: v, 230 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: "Melancholic, rebellious, and endlessly mysterious, William 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 offers actors a chance to infuse Shakespeare's superbly written dialogue with their own personalities. Taking readers on a tour of Hamlet's world and his troubled mind, Marvin W. Hunt gets to the heart of what gives the play its power, offers a revelatory look at Shakespeare's most popular creation, and sheds new light on why he has been such an enduring character."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The Prehistory of Hamlet -- The Three Hamlets -- Yorick's Skull: Relocating Reality in Hamlet -- Dead Son Hamlet -- The Man in Black: Gallery One -- Contrarians at the Gate -- Hamlet among the Romantics: A Brief History of Grief -- "This Distracted Globe": Hamlet and Melancholy -- Hamlet among the Moderns -- The Man in Black: Gallery Two -- Postmodern Hamlet -- Looking for Hamlet.
Subject headings (LCSH): Hamlet (Legendary character); Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.