Hamlet

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Penguin UK, Apr 7, 2005 - Drama - 400 pages
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'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. Eliot

In Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's ghost in the middle of the night, who accuses his own brother - now married to his widow - of murdering him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild insanity while plotting revenge. But his actions soon begin to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

Used and Recommended by the National Theatre

General Editor Stanley Wells
Edited by T. J. B. Spencer
Introduction by Alan Sinfield

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After the death of his father, Hamlet's mother is over-hasty in remarrying to her husband's brother. Hamlet is grim and despondent over the union but when he meets his father's ghost things only get ... Read full review

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Arguably the best play by Shakespeare. Hamlet is the best. 'Something rotten' in Denmarkand it engulfed the young Prince. Will read it again and again. Read full review

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Contents

The Play in Performance
An Account of the Text
Commentary
Copyright

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action actor appearance arms audience BARNARDO believe blood body cause character Claudius CLOWN comes dead death Denmark directions earth effect Elizabethan England Enter Exeunt Exit eyes face fall father fear feeling follow Fortinbras friends Gertrude Ghost give given Guildenstern Hamlet hand hath head hear heart heaven hold honour Horatio imagines important indicate interpreted keep killed kind King King’s Laertes leave letters live look lord madness MARCELLUS matter means mind misogyny mother murder nature never night Ophelia OSRICK performance perhaps phrase play PLAYER poison Polonius present Presumably probably Queen question reading reason referring revenge Rosencrantz scene seems sense Shakespeare soul speak speech spirit stage suggested sword tell thee thing thou thoughts true usual young

About the author (2005)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), a collection of sonnets and a variety of other poems.

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TitleHamlet
New Penguin Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ContributorsPaul Prescott, Alan Sinfield
PublisherPenguin UK, 2005
ISBN0141920971, 9780141920979
Length400 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Drama / Shakespeare
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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