Hamlet
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This new edition of Hamlet is part of the customary Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series’ active approach it treats the play as a speech to be acted, explored and loved. As well as the perfect speech of Hamlet, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and an enlarged selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language.
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I am hardly a fan of any Shakespeare: I find that his characters overact, talk too much about nothing, and spend most of their plays inserting extra words in to sentences that could be said in four words or less.
Hamlet, but, reaches a new level of Shakespearean lackluster: This one is simply dull, with lifelessly dull characters that can never seem to figure out what they want. It follows the standard Shakespearean tragedy plotline (Guy has stuff take place to him that’s either really excellent or really terrible, two small subplots, and then everybody dies), but this one lacks spark, or even a pulse for that matter.
Well, there’s my two cents… Go yet to be, find my review unhelpful if you want… but seriously, if it’s Shakespeare you want, go buy a different play than this.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If your father’s ghost dropped by one day and told you to kill your uncle would you do it? It’s a pretty huge step. Can you picture yourself killing your uncle? And he’s the king no less. Alright, there are no kings in America. So say your uncle is the administrator. Would you kill him? Hamlet had a lot to reflect about before going into action. So would I. Well, what the hell, blow him away.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
In my opinion all of Shakespeare’s writings are long winded, drawn out words with no possibility of ever coming close to being remotly appealing. Hamlet was really one of the most terribly dull, predictable, useless book ever written. The plot had no vital juices. The charachters were devoid of all emotion and energy. Even more devastating to the book is how it all finished. I really got to say once Hamlet,Gertrude, and Claudius died I was leaping with joy, it was impossible to contain my excitment. Why? Because it meant that if every one is dead, well, IT IS FINALLY OVER! Finally, this book not only is long, dull, and an embaressment to the whole romantic time period. It has no long lasting effect on anyone. So, what I’m trying to say is that any poor, unfortunate soul that has to read this book will never even know let alone remember what really went on through the course of the play.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
All and all this play is atrocious. Though it is acclaimed as the greatest work of drama ever, it is hardly that. People who say such things, have absolutely no credibility. Hamlet’s only purpose is to confuse the reader. Any intelligent person can see through his character and realize that he is small more than a feeble mind with a large vocabulary. He is nearly the mirror image of Lennie in OF MICE AND MEN, Barnaby Rudge in the Dickens’ book of the same name, Benjy in THE SOUND AND THE FURY, or Dogberry in Shakespeare’s own MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The rest of the main characters (Claudius, Gerturde, Polonius, Ophelia, Laertes, The Ghost, Horatio, Rosencrantz, Guildensern, The Player King, Fortinbras, The First Gravedigger, Barnardo, Reynaldo, and Osric) are ridiculous and annoying caricatures. HAMLET would have been a much better play had these characters been eliminated entirely. Their only contribution lies in the fustian and obfuscating scenery of a horrid play. Take my advice: if you want some real entertainment, read Shakespeare’s TITUS ANDRONICUS with the fantastic intellect Aaron the Moor, the forerunner of Iago, or THE SPANISH TRAGEDY, containing the sublime Hieronimo, the forerunner of Jane Austen’s Anne Elliot. You will find these plays far superior to the “aesthetic failure,” as T.S. Eliot commented, otherwise known as HAMLET.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I don’t know what Willy Shakespeare was thinking when he wrote this one play tragedy, but I thought this sure was dull! Hamlet does too much talking and not enough stuff. He needs to shape up and show them who’s boss. Maybe Shakespeare fans of Hamlet should take a rest on the book tragedy! Ha ha!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5