Hamlet

by Louis B. Wright (Editor)

paperbound

Genres: Plays, Classics

147 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1973

About the author

Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Reviews

[DJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

still good.

[Jazmyn Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely not

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hamlet is about everything if you try hard enough

[James Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

The introductory notes were spot on. I thought the framework was laid out extremely well. Wasn't simplistic, but wasn't overly academic. I picked on the hesitation theme through out, but not just on Hamlet's hesitation. Claudius also hesitates in his seeking to see Hamlet dead by giving different excuses. Maybe calmly thinking and planning versus irrational action is a family trait. Loved one of Gertrude's lines, "More matter with less art."

[John Fielding · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolute banger. Haven’t read any Shakespeare in a long time and forgot how good his writing is, the soliloquies in this book are some of the best writing I’ve ever read. Everything about this play, the characters, the story, the writing is great, really just all in all a masterpiece.

“What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?”

[Aoife · Rating 4 out of 5]

My students are stanning Claudius, that's a bitta me honestly

[juliet grey · Rating 5 out of 5]

now cracks a noble heart.

[Christoph Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 3rd or 4th time reading Hamlet. It just gets better and better every time I read it.

[Olivia Lytle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love you Hamlet I’ll never forget you

[Pickle · Rating 4 out of 5]

“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself”

[Jim Firestone · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s about time I read this play. I have seen various productions of Hamlet but don’t think I really understood what was going on until I read the play. Grief, melancholy, obligation, revenge, are themes that are explored in this work. And some of Shakespeare’s most famous, most memorable lines are in it. Nevertheless, I think it takes a live performance to bring the full emotional impact to the story.

[Sarah Hartfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this with CP --I followed along in the book while listening to The original BBC audio production of it. "I am dead Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!" made me cry. What a play!

Read a second time this year with our co-op class; so much fun! We also went and saw it live