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Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
Hamlet: An UPDATED EDITION from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties.
Among them: What is the Ghost--Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, Gertrude, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder?
The authoritative edition of Hamlet from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
-An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Michael Neill
Enjoy this updated Folger edition of Hamlet in either the handy pocket-sized mass market paperback (ISBN 978-0743477123), elegant trade paperback featuring finer paper and wider margins (ISBN 978-1451669411), or Kindle edition (ASIN B00IWTWDA6).
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties.
Among them: What is the Ghost--Hamlet's father demanding justice, a tempting demon, an angelic messenger? Does Hamlet go mad, or merely pretend to? Once he is sure that Claudius is a murderer, why does he not act? Was his mother, Gertrude, unfaithful to her husband or complicit in his murder?
The authoritative edition of Hamlet from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
-An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Michael Neill
Enjoy this updated Folger edition of Hamlet in either the handy pocket-sized mass market paperback (ISBN 978-0743477123), elegant trade paperback featuring finer paper and wider margins (ISBN 978-1451669411), or Kindle edition (ASIN B00IWTWDA6).
Readers Top Reviews
Robert ‘Bob’ Macespe
Now in their third round of edition, it started in the XIX century, the Arden series are deep and long reviews and essays on the works of Shakespeare. They review the different versions of the plays and sonnets - focusing in the quartos and folio and make a very thorough study on the spelling, punctuation, grammar and typos. It is hard to rate anything on Shakespeare with three stars only, but in my opinion, these books are not for the general reader, only for scholars and students of literature. Due to the numerous footnotes it is very hard to follow the play, so it is easy to read it in a conventional edition. The notes and essays are long, taking hundreds of pages and, eventually (again, when the reader is not a scholar), the read is a tad tedious. To conclude, a well of knowledge for scholars and students; for the general reader, do go to one of the many editions of annotated complete works (my favorite, the RSC published in 2007).
RichOliver O'Reilly
I bought this edition as I'm building a hardback library and wanted to see if this collection was worth buying in full. Well... no. Emphatically: "No". Product features: - Dissappointingly small (it's a pocket-sized edition). As well as being diminutive it has a very cluttered layout and is not easy to read. And the binding is so tight (and the thickness so slim) that it's perpetually on the threshold of tearing apart like a chicken wing - Pages have the same thickness and touch as Rizla papers. And yet have a really gaudy "gold" edge. (Style guide: the collectors plates in your nan's front room.) It's hard to figure who this edition is aimed at. Not students, as it's a pain to read. Not collectors, as it's too budget and unattractive. I can only fathom that there's a niche market for people who *have* to carry small copies of Shakespeare in their bum pocket. That's unlikely to be you. With regret: avoid.
NKAmandaEmilio Vazqu
So I bought this book a month ago but I put it on my book shelf for a while and haven’t gotten around to reading it but when I did the English was hard to understand and the side notes weren’t helping much so I decided to come back to amazon to see if any of the side notes helped anyone else (they didn’t) then I saw one what I thought was a “fake review” of someone showing multiple books with pages falling out I assumed maybe they were just destructive and it was a lie because I had already gotten through Act.1 with no problem then at the end of reading act 2 I could tell one of the pages looked weird so I turned it and the whole next page fell out of the book and 2 other pages were coming apart from the bridge of the book. Its a waste to have a book that’s gonna just fall apart and have missing pages.
Nick Koepkeesa372LSM
I purchased these texts for my students, and several of them have told me about the pages falling out. They are in different sections of the text, so it's not just the same for everyone. I'm embarrassed of this and the fact that I've purchased these, given them as gifts, and now the binding of the book (after 4 days of use) is starting to fall apart. It's terrible and pathetic. My students feel cheated out of money because the product they bought isn't holding together, and again after four days.
