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The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet, to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle.
Hamlet pretends to be affected by madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781914602146
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Chiltern Publishing
Publication Date: 04-25-2023
Pages: 352
Product Dimensions: 0.00(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range: 9 - 11 Years
Series: Chiltern Classic
About the Author
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon." His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language.
Jonathan Bate is a passionate advocate of Shakespeare and his introductions are full of striking and convincing observations ... footnotes at the bottom of each page gloss unfamiliar items of vocabulary, paraphrase tricky meanings and uncover bawdy puns. There is a universe to be found in these annotations: the Renaissance world of power and fate, sex and death, language and philosophy.' – Times Educational Supplement
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Hamlet - William Shakespeare - Edited by Sylvan Barnet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811- 1812, Lecture XII A. C. Bradley: From Shakespearean Tragedy Maynard Mack: The World of Hamlet Robert Ornstein: From The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy
NEWLY ADDED ESSAYS: Catherine Belsey: From The Subject of Tragedy Carolyn Heilbrun: The Character of Hamlet's Mother Sylvan Barnet: 'Hamlet' on the Stage and Screen