An edition of Hamlet (1603)

Hamlet

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An edition of Hamlet (1603)

Hamlet

  • 4.0 (144 ratings) ·
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Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge was first enacted in London in 1602. Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is in mourning for his dead father, is visited by his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother, Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to kill Claudius. When he accidentally stabs Polonius, Claudius's counselor, Hamlet is sent into exile--and Polonius's daughter, Ophelia, who had been in love with Hamlet, goes mad from grief and drowns herself. In the climax of the play, old scores are settled at last, and Hamlet's speaks his famous last words: "The rest is silence." Considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, HAMLET is part of the well-established tradition of "revenge tragedies" that were popular at the end of the Elizabethan era, but the play transcends all its influences in its examination of justice and duty, and as a subtle portrait of a sensitive young man torn between righteous revenge and his duty as a moral man.

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Penguin USA, Inc.
Language
English

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Hamlet
2021, Standard Ebooks
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Hamlet
May 19, 2017, Libsa
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Hamlet
2013, Editorail Tomo
in Spanish
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Hamlet
2012 June 30, LibriVox
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Hamlet
2012 September 01, LibriVox
Digital Audio in English - version 3
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ΑΜΛΕΤΟΣ
2010 March 27, Project Gutenberg
Epub in Modern Greek
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Hamlet
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
eBook in English
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Hamlet
2009 November 24, LibriVox
Digital Audio in English
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Hamlet: Drama em cinco Actos
2008 June, Project Gutenberg
Epub in Portuguese - IMPRENSA NACIONAL 1880 2nd ed.
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Hamlet
2007, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Hamlet, Prinz von Dannemark
2005 January, Project Gutenberg
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Hamlet
2005 April 16, Project Gutenberg
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Hamlet
2005 February 13, Project Gutenberg
Epub in French
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Hamlet
2002, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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Hamlet
2001, Giunti
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Hamlet
2000, IDG Books
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The Tragedie of Hamlet
2000-07, Project Gutenberg
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1999 June, Project Gutenberg
Epub in English
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1998-11-01, Project Gutenberg
Epub in English - Collins Edition
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Hamlet
1997, Arden Shakespeare
in English
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1997 December, Project Gutenberg, in cooperation with World Library, Inc.
Epub in English
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Hamlet: Shakespeare for Young People
Oct 01, 1996, Swan Books
paperback
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Hamlet: English
1996, Librio
in French
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Hamlet
1993?, Simon & Schuster
in English
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eBook

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Open Library
OL24297358M
ISBN 13
9781101085493, 9781101100349, 9781101097373
OverDrive
CFC97CDC-C63C-48F5-B85F-E0A4FFE08737

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Work Description

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art.
The title role of Hamlet, perhaps the most demanding in all of Western drama, has provided generations of leading actors their greatest challenge. Yet all the roles in this towering drama are superbly delineated, and each of the key scenes offers actors a rare opportunity to create theatrical magic.
As if further evidence of Shakespeare's genius were needed, Hamlet is a unique pleasure to read as well as to see and hear performed. The full text of this extraordinary drama is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition complete with illuminating footnotes.
(back cover)

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