The Annotated Shakespeare: Hamlet

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The Annotated Shakespeare: Hamlet

The Annotated Shakespeare: Hamlet

Name: The Annotated Shakespeare: Hamlet
ISBN: 9780300138238

William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom

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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.

Categories:

Fiction - Classics

Year:

2003

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

284

ISBN 10:

0300138237