Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Modern Reader's Hamlet
Author: William ShakespeareHamlet in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Author: BookCapsPublisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1610427297
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Hamlet is arguably one of the greatest plays ever written; it has been staged countless times, adapted into movies, and inspired thousands of artist--but let's face it..if you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of Hamlet. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. This book was last updated 2/18/12.
Falling for Hamlet
Author: Michelle RayPublisher: Poppy
ISBN: 0316134422
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Passion, romance, drama, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this compulsively readable Hamlet retelling, from the perspective of a strong-willed, modern-day Ophelia. Meet Ophelia, high school senior, daughter of the Danish king's most trusted adviser, and longtime girlfriend of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. She lives a glamorous life and has a royal social circle, and her beautiful face is splashed across magazines and television screens. But it comes with a price--her life is ruled not only by Hamlet's fame and his overbearing royal family but also by the paparazzi who hound them wherever they go. After the sudden and suspicious death of his father, the king, the devastatingly handsome Hamlet spirals dangerously toward madness, and Ophelia finds herself torn, with no one to turn to. All Ophelia wants is to live a normal life. But when you date a prince, you have to play your part. Ophelia rides out this crazy roller coaster life, and lives to tell her story in live television interviews.
The Modern Reader's Hamlet
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamlet (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Modern Reader's Hamlet (Classic Reprint)
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332187174
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Excerpt from The Modern Reader's Hamlet Head of the English department, emeritus, at the University of Chicago, also a celebrated teacher of Shakespeare, thanks are due for several suggestions utilized in the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Hamlet in His Modern Guises
Author: Alexander WelshPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in itself. Welsh also reminds us that the mourning of a son for his father may not always be sincere. This book relates the problem of dubious mourning to Hamlet's ascendancy as an icon of Western culture, which began late in the eighteenth century, a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress. Welsh reveals how Hamlet inspired some of the greatest practitioners of modernity's quintessential literary form, the novel. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Scott's Redgauntlet, Dickens's Great Expectations, Melville's Pierre, and Joyce's Ulysses all enhance our understanding of the play while illustrating a trend in which Hamlet ultimately becomes a model of intense consciousness. Arguing that modern consciousness mourns for the past, even as it pretends to be free of it, Welsh offers a compelling explanation of why Hamlet remains marvelously attractive to this day.
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Author: Rhodri LewisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691204519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a 'Hamlet' unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended.
Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen GreenblattPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691160244
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Setting out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, Stephen Greenblatt provides an account of the rise and fall of purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a new reading of the power of Hamlet.
Understanding Hamlet
Author: Robert James RenwickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780994758002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
'Hamlet' Without Hamlet
Author: Margreta de GraziaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521870259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.