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Hamlet

By: Berkley Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Classics Illustrated

Last Stocked on 9/8/2019

Product Info

Title
Hamlet
Publisher
Product Line
Category
Author
William Shakespeare, Steven Grant
Publish Year
1990
Pages
48
Dimensions
7x10x.2"
NKG Part #
2147471737
MFG. Part #
BCIWSH
Type
Softcover

Description

The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement.