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Hamlet

In this annotated version of Shakespeare's play, the author offers guidance with vocabulary, the usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. The on-page annotations provide readers with tools needed to comprehend the play and to explore its many possible interpretations. The author also offers background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters Hamlet and Ophelia.--adapted from jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003
Tragedies
xxxi, 249 pages ; 20 cm
9780300101751, 9780300101058, 0300101759, 0300101058
992742244
Machine derived contents note: <contents, p. vii, no folio; p. viii blank>
Contents
About This Book ix
Introduction 00
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1
Essay by Harold Bloom 00
Further Reading 00
Finding List 00
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