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Summary: Very Rad
Review: Although it is considered a tragedy, it has a kind of grim satirical humour I enjoyed. How can a book with lines like, "Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away," not be seen as humorous. It is almost lightly, though somewhat bitterly, mocking the futile achivements of human kind. It had a different flavor than a tragedy like Macbeth, in which the only humourous part is Banquo's remark about the witches' beards. Oddly, I think the humour gives Hamlet more depth and meaning.
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Summary: SHAME ON YOU if you've never read Hamlet
Review: Simply the best play ever written and a glorious testament to the power of the human language. You are missing something in life if you've never read Hamlet, so read it and be enlightened. It is one of those extraordinary works which you can revisit every year (literally-- I do not exaggerate) and always discover something new.
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Summary: Hamlet is a brilliantly woven story.
Review: Of course, I am a bit partial since Shakespeare is my favorite author, but I think that Hamlet is a masterpiece. In high school we read and acted out Hamlet, and it made the characters come to life. Alot of the credit of this I give to my high school English teacher. I think everyone should read this book, and add it to their library, because it will enrich your life.
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Summary: A Most Exciting Book, Methinks
Review: Afraid of reading a real Shakespeare play, especially Hamlet? This is a perfect solution. On the facing page is the modern translation; on the opposite page, the original text (for the more courageous reader). The modern text is not too simple, but easy enough to grasp. Murders, revenge, love, ghosts, poison, swordfights, spying, suicide, and (yes) humor--alas, if only more people knew what they were missing! (P.S. The Ken Branagh movie is absolutely heavenly--for those willing to sit through four hours, it's an absolute treat!)
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Summary: The Bard's finest tragedy
Review: I love this one! It is chock-full of psychology, poetry, excitement... I wish more of my classmates would give Shakespeare a chance, they really don't know what they're missing.
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Summary: I feel asleep, it was so boring!
Review: This book is very boring and doesn't say much for the man who wrote it! Ofcourse Willy is acclaimed as the best writer of all time, but this is only because of British Media hyping the man, after 400 years.
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Summary: It is a good play.
Review: The play "Hamlet", written by William Shakespeare, is a very good play. Hamlet is a young man whose father has been killed. Hamlet must avenge his father's ghost. The method of his revenge causes a tragedy in the end. I would recommend the play to anyone. I liked the play because it was comical at times (like when Hamlet is describing the location of Polonious's body). However, I would have liked it better if the speeches weren't so long.
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Summary: A great teaching tool!
Review: Shakespeare, William and Alan Durband. Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Made Easy).This classic English play is presented with Shakespeare's lines on every left-hand page and a "translation" of standard American English on the facing right-hand page. The original play with all its intricacies remains intact alongside the easier version that assists in reading, although no line-by-line analysis is included. This teaching-study guide does include background information on the playwright and the time period to put the play in historical perspective. Of special interest to teachers are the discussion questions, quizzes, and tests that would even supplement most textbooks.
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Summary: One of the greatest acheivement in the english langage
Review: I have come into Shakespeare in the last four years of my life. And to me he is the greatest writer of the english language and possibly of any other langauge for that matter. I have also come to beleive that Hamlet is his greatest acomplishment. It is a story of love, life, and death. Maddness, incest, murder, and the injustice of life and death are played into a plot the gives justice to the human spirit. I beleive you must read it, or see it, or hear it. You wont find it's superior and anywhere.
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Summary: Tragedy of Denmark Prince Hamlet
Review: Hamlet When I first made a decision to read Hamlet, a lot of my friends wondered why I wanted to read this book. It wasn't easy to read, but I'm very proud that I followed through with my decision. Hamlet is about personal conflict and it has sex, murders, and incest. Hamlet is a prince of Denmark who returned from his studies to attend his father's funeral. After only the short time, his mother remarry with Hamlet's Uncle Claudius. Hamlet thought something was rotten in Denmark. Hamlet discovered that Claudius had a hand in his father's murder. This is where Hamlet's conflict lies which is "To be or not to be, that is the question." Should he revenge his father's death or should he listened to his mother and forget his father's death and get on with a normal life and eventually, it ends with tragedy, characters either being murdered or committing suicide. I think Hamlet is trying to show us that sometimes it is difficult to make decisions. There are sometimes conflicts between what we think and what we feel.
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