Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)

Product Description:
Each edition includes:

• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

• Scene-by-scene plot summaries

• A key to famous lines and phrases

• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books

Essay by Michael Neill

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe.In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.For more information, visit www.folger.edu.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - the guy who gave Hamlet a one-star review
The guy who gave Hamlet a one-star review is either a tongue-cheek humorist of the first order, or barring that, an absolute idiot.
Rating: - Frailty, thy name is "human"
I had previously read translated versions of Hamlet, but I discovered that nothing compares to reading it in the original English. Shakespeare's words are an art form without equal, exquisitely mixed with a story of human anguish and emotional struggle.

No staging of this work or great movie of the play can replace reading the play word by word. Admittedly, reading the play is intense and difficult work, but the joy of the journey is quite worth the pain. The charm of the language is ... Read More
Rating: - A timeless great work that should be read again and again
What can one possibly say about the greatest literary work every written in the English language?Just this. Read it again. Hamlet is a work that is subject to multiple interpretations. If you read it 20 years ago it may well mean something different to you now. Was Hamlet mad?Why does he delay acting?What is justice?The play is profound for the questions it raises as well as for its language. It amazed me on reading it again after many years how many lines are in common use now. While some ... Read More
Rating: - A truly BLOODY play
"Hamlet" is considered, by some, to be Shakespeare's best work.I am not of that school of thought.I've read it.I've watched it played on a stage.I've watched a movie or two based on it.It could be better.

Hamlet (the character) has problems.Apparently, his step-father killed his father.This obsesses Hamlet, who,also, is depressed, manic, neurotic, and fearful.Still, count up the dead bodies that accumulate during the play!

One of the problems with the play ... Read More
Rating: - Greatness
shakespeare has done it again... and thanks toamazon i was allowed to fully enjoy this great masterpiece