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    <body><![CDATA[Hamlet, abridged:<br/><br/>GHOST/DAD: Hamlet, your uncle killed me and married your mom. I want vengeance, so best get to murdering, plzthnx. <br/>HAMLET: EEK! <br/>OPHELIA: Hamlet, are you okay?<br/>HAMLET: Get away from me, skankwhore! <br/>OPHELIA: WTF? *goes from zero to crazy like <em>that</em>*<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22496217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve always meant to talk to my mate George about Hamlet and I guess this is as good an opportunity to do so as any.<br/><br/>There are different things I would say to different people about Hamlet – and as this is the near perfect play I guess there ought to be many and various things one cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14969781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jesus Christ what a year no way could this get worse now they're hacking away at each other with their swords and I'm supposed to look interested oh well done Hamlet despite everything he's still my son that was a lovely feint pretty worried about Laertes though he looks so crazy first his dad and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38903077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6878732">
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    <body><![CDATA[I bet someone already quoted this, but anyway.<br/><br/>The Skinhead Hamlet - Shakespeare's play translated into modern English. By Richard Curtis.<br/> <br/>Note : those offended by the F word - LOOK AWAY NOW!<br/><br/>*********<br/><br/>ACT I<br/>SCENE I<br/>The Battlements of Elsinore C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6878732">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18672618">
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    <body><![CDATA[Is there a better artistic expression of death's myriad manifestations than Shakespeare's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329522.Hamlet_Shakespeare_Signet_Classic_" title="Hamlet (Shakespeare, Signet Classic) by William Shakespeare">Hamlet</a>? I say no. In my counter-factual universe I see William Shakespeare as a Lieutenant at the First Somme. Imagine the war poetry that Shakespeare could have written. Perhaps one such war sonnet would have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18672618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7570778">
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    <body><![CDATA[Just taking a stab here.  Feel free to comment or dismiss.<br/><br/>I'd like to suggest that &quot;Hamlet&quot; was the first work of &quot;high&quot; or &quot;serious&quot; literature, by which I mean the first publically disseminated text written in a common language that was difficult for its c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7570778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1467102">
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    <body><![CDATA[Shakespeare is an adept poet and master of the language. He layers on jokes, puns, and references everywhere. He has a massive output of work, and a number of different plots. When we compare him to other authors, it is difficult to find anyone who stacks up. This is usually because we compare him t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1467102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14885530">
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    <body><![CDATA[To be perfectly honest, I think the only time I have appreciated Hamlet, is watching Shakespeare Abridged. A professor spent half of a semester dissecting this play, and I <em>still</em> didn’t care for it, to his great dismay. <br/><br/>“Why?!” he asked. <br/><br/>“I don’t know where to begin,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14885530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8411437">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've discovered the Signet Classics Shakespeare editions to be satisfying versions of the Old Man's stuff.  They're thoroughly glossed and annotated, the editorial decisions are explained and reasoned out for the reader, and the supplementary criticism is insightful.  I found the Signet Classics edi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8411437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2025597">
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    <body><![CDATA[Obviously the plot is so well understood that there is nothing I can add.  Some of my favorite lines are as follows:<br/><br/>There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.<br/><br/>The lady doth protest too much, methinks.<br/><br/>This above all — to thine ownself be true; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2025597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52380493">
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    <body><![CDATA[     What could I say of Hamlet that hasn't already been said?  It's place in the literary canon is absolutely necessary.  Hamlet, the prince, is the deepest, most complete character in literary history, unsurpassed previously and ever since. What makes Hamlet so special is his ability to see the wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52380493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is it true that thoughts could carry us out of the limited universalities of words? Whether we speak or drink words or act them, is it not possible that they could encapture us in their meanings and what we intend to reflect upon our needs and desires to know and what we intend to become consequentl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10689795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shakespeare's masterpiece. What sets Hamlet apart from other WS plays I have read is its realistic flow: the plot in not contrived (ala Macbeth), the time-frame not quickened (ala Romeo and Juliet), the climax not hollow (ala Julius Caesar). Even the ghosts scenes work. The depth of Hamlet's charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41082007">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hamlet is my favorite character in all English literature. For all his cunning and wit, his self-doubt and indecision make him so human. <br/><br/>Some favorite quotes: <br/>&quot;What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and adm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50772970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like most advanced American high school students, I read this before receiving my first diploma and on my way to a B.A. in English and Literature: I read it, loved it, analyzed it, cursed it, and lectured on it. <br/>     Returning to it later, as an atheist in what I feel to be an overly religious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78303573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently I read Updike's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98160.Gertrude_and_Claudius" title="Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike">Gertrude and Claudius</a>and Bloom's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33181.Hamlet_Poem_Unlimited" title="Hamlet  Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom">Hamlet Poem Unlimited</a>, and both books got me thinking about <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420.Hamlet" title="Hamlet by William Shakespeare">Hamlet</a>.<br/><br/>To many people, <em>Hamlet</em> is Shakespeare's greatest play.  While I have always preferred <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3113044.Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare">Antony and Cleopatra</a>, I have to admit it is a top play.  I could go on about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73336972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[perhaps one of the strangest things ever written? just sitting here thinking about this play makes me dizzy. this play seems so nihilistic, so hell-bent on showing the audience Hamlet destroy his life, and the life of anyone else he cares about, and then making this script so beautiful that it poiso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72851128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;'Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, or mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled.&quot; 14<br/><br/>&quot;There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio//Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.&quot; 36<br/><br/>&quot;What piece of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70154668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This play is re-imagined so many different ways depending on your source. I love this play, especially the uncontrolled conspiracies of everyone trying to plan something behind everyone else's back.  I loved reading this play for the first time in high school and researching a paper on the unconvent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63003774">more...</a>]]></body>
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