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When the ghost of his father appears to Prince Hamlet of Denmark, urging him to avenge his murder upon his uncle, the tragic flaw of indecision leads Hamlet to ruin
This fully annotated version of Hamlet makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century, and offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and ...
Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's play about a prince's wavering determination to avenge his father's murder
Retells in rhymed couplets Shakespeare's tragedy about the Danish prince's efforts to avenge his father's death, with illustrations by second graders.
To enhance your learning, notes and definitions appear directly opposite the line in which they occur, and a review section follows the play. This edition also introduces you to the life, works, and times of William Shakespeare.
Hamlet
Hamlet, mort à peine depuis deux mois, non, pas autant, pas deux, Un si excellent roi, qui était à celui-ci.
These are the questions that are asked and answered in the introduction by Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare, and in the tradition-oriented critical essays by leading Shakespeare scholars that can be found in this ...
This text is designed as a supplement to the Arden Hamlet and refers to the Introduction and Appendices of that volume for a full discussion of dating, sources, textual matters, afterlife, and all other topics usually covered in an Arden ...
Studies in Philology 68 (1951): 161–92; John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic (London: Chatto and Windus, 1959); Miriam Joseph, “Discerning the Ghostin Hamlet,” PMLA 76(1961): 302; Christopher Devlin, Hamlet's Divinity (Carbondale: ...