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Title: Hamlet
Condition: New
EAN: 9780300101058
ISBN: 9780300101058
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/09/2003
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Weight: 227g
Author: William Shakespeare
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300101058
Description: The Annotated Shakespeare series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
 
“If any work deserves a student’s closest attention, it is Hamlet. Burton Raffel’s fully annotated edition is a teacher’s and student’s dream: the words are fully explained, and they get a wonderful essay by Harold Bloom as well.”—George Soule, Carleton College
 
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 twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled, with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind.

Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous 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. This version of Hamlet is unparalleled for its thoroughness and adherence to sound linguistic principles. In his Introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare’s achievement. The book also includes a Further Reading section.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Burton Raffel (Edited by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Annotated Shakespeare
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Release Year: 2003

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