William Shakespeare

Hamlet: Shakespeare Made Easy: Modern Version Side-by-side with Full Original Text (Bound for Schools & Libraries) William Shakespeare

Brief Description: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. Brief Description: The drama of the melancholy Dane who seeks revenge for the murder of his father. The original test is on the left and new modern English text is on the right. Publisher Marketing: This edition of Shakespeare's classic play presents the 1974 text edited by G. Blakemore Evans from The Riverside Shakespeare (complete with footnotes, glosses, and textual notes) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read Hamlet from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Shakespeare and Hamlet, a survey of critical responses to the play since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Review Citations:

Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 50 (EAN 9780812969092, Paperback)

Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 79 (EAN 9780300101751, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1993 (EAN 9780679938712, Hardcover)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1993 (EAN 9780679838715, Other)

Library Journal 03/15/1994 (EAN 9780553472257, Analog Audio Cassette)

Audio File 06/01/2012 pg. 49 (EAN 9781580818803, Compact Disc)

Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/1996 pg. 54 (EAN 9780393315059, Paperback)

Library Journal 08/01/1996 (EAN 9780393315059, Paperback)

Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 257 (EAN 9780393929584, Paperback)

Booklist 06/01/1993 pg. 1869 (EAN 9780679839217, Video, VHS Format)

Contributor Bio:  Shakespeare, William William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England's Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children--their older daughter Susanna and the twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare's working life was spent, not in Stratford, but in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright, but as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Sometime between 1610 and 1613, Shakespeare is thought to have retired from the stage and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616.