|
Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) :: 074347712X
Description
| Product Description |
|
| A detailed product description is unavailable at this moment. Email us on sales@shopinhk.com if you need more information about this product. |
Reviews
Customer feedback
|
|
Voting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Author: Guest
A prince, his troubled family, murder, deceit and some of the richest verse ever written.
How can you go wrong?
|
Author: Guest
A classic, but not Shakespeare's best tradgedy. Fewer sparks of brilliance and depth of multiple characters than Macbeth, Julius Caesar or the Richards.
|
Author: Guest
Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) places English beside English for those that need a translation from English to English. If this is read or acted out loud the translation would be superfluous.
-------------------------------------------------------
This really is "The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark" and not only the Prince but his family. Not only his family but his friends. Not only his friends but all though that came before him and is told to those that came after him.
You can slow down and pick apart many underlying themes and may of the phrases that now challenge Bible sayings in today's sound bites. But the real fun is in just reading the story and you will find that it is not as foreign as you may have thought.
A quick synopsis is that Old Hamlet conquered Old Fortinbras seizing his land. Now that Old Hamlet is dead, Young Fortinbras wants his land back and is willing to take it by force. Meanwhile back in Dänemark Young Hamlet who is excessively grieving for the loss of his father, gets a now insight from his fathers ghost. Looks like he was a victim of a "murder most foul"; it looks like his mother and uncle were in cahoots on the murder.
The story is about what each person felt and acted or did not act upon the situation.
You will find many movies and perverted imitations of the story but nothing will replace the original that was intended to be watched but reads well.
|
Author: Guest
what fire-spells lie in hamlet's mind! here is not some two-dimensional action figure whose only purpose is to enflame the audience with wonder with his sword-slash and his martial agility. here is not some cheap revenge drama where the hero eventually magno-triumphs in glory and thus satiates the spec-tators rage-lust for justice. asymmetrical! here is a man spider-entangled with enigma, here is man truly bewildered by life's perplexo. here is a man who fails to overcome his own interior twists and banish the fog that grips him in paraly-scourge. this drama causes us to ponder life's rattle of chaotica more acutely, it compels us into the prison of inquiry, baffles us and leaves perhaps wiser than before. for what intrigues we humans most is mystery, the unknown, the irresolvable and thus this scholar of wittenberg, armed with a formidible array of proofs, evidences, theories and conjectures, nevertheless, despite all his bookish wisdom, finds himself helplessly at the mercy of rage-orcs when he is challenged to confront the world's unjustice, become a man of action and right his uncle's wrongs! are we all not hamlet? do we all not shrink in the face of tyranno-blight? do we all not at some time or another complacently let injustice govern us, rule us, oppress us? do we all not occasionally become enwebbed by reality's night-shadows and cannot for the life of us rouse the tank-courage needed to banish the vipers? this is a man of emotion! this is a man who thinks! this is a man who contemplates the conundrums harrowing our sleep in constanto! he cannot help but arouse our sympathy and draw us into his sphere, cheering for him, rooting for him, praying for his eventual conquest of lechers for we all at one time or another have experienced similar ideas floating in our cosmos. and yet when he fails life's omnipresent hazard strikes us in greater prepondera thus causing us think more deeply on our existence.
kyle foley, author of Lorelei Pursued, Wrestles with God
|
Author: Guest
I am a student at Mercy High School in Middletown, CT. "Hamlet" is one of my favorite plays. I have read it more times than I can recount. I think this is one of those plays that you have to read a lot to get the full meaning. Also, there are so many different interpretations of "Hamlet" that you cannot rely on one source to understand the play. I think everybody has to make her own interpretation of "Hamlet." I would recommend this play to everyone because it is one of teh best plays in the world. You can read it over and over again and not get tired of it. And after you've read "Hamlet," go out and find yourself a copy of "Letters From an Actor," by William Redfield.
I would rate this play a 10/10.
|
Send to Friend
Send to friend
|
|
