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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
CliffsComplete Hamlet covers details of the most widely produced and critiqued Shakespearean play. Written in poignant language, Hamlet contains all the elements necessary for a good tragedy, including a brave and daring hero who suffers a fatal flaw.
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.
A new way for readers to appreciate one of Shakespeare's most-quoted plays
Adapted for the cinema many times and performed regularly on stages
around the globe, Hamlet is Shakespeare's most enduringly popular play,
with sales regularly topping 50,000 copies a year. This manga edition
retells the story of Hamlet using one of today's hottest book formats,
making the play's action and meaning more accessible and enjoyable than
ever.
The
sudden death of the king, later revealed to be murder. The queen's
all-too-sudden remarriage to the king's brother, the murderer. The
grieving, suspicious Prince Hamlet. Supernatural visitations.
Deception, manipulation, and soul-searching deliberation. Plots, leaks,
and counterplots. Poisoned wine. A rigged sword fight. Revenge.
In this fast-paced manga edition, you're instantly caught up in the
conflicts and passions that make this one of Shakespeare's most beloved
tragedies.
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Shakespeare- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
On a dark winter night, a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discovered first by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost resembles the recently deceased King Hamlet, whose brother Claudius has inherited the throne and married the king’s widow, Queen Gertrude. When Horatio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrude and the dead king, to see the ghost, it speaks to him, declaring ominously that it is indeed his father’s spirit, and that he was murdered by none other than Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge on the man who usurped his throne and married his wife, the ghost disappears with the dawn.
