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Hamlet

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In this handbook for Hamlet, Alistair McCallum guides readers through the difficulties of plot and language, leaving them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's work. It is a superb introduction to the play.

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 1997

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April 18, 2013
Read Feb 25 – Mar 12, along with the actually play

Very simple stuff. It was good enough for my reading companion to the play. McCallum summarizes each act, highlights the important lines and adds trivia, usually in the form various quotes about Hamlet & Shakespeare through time.

One I really liked, when exploring what characters Shakespeare may himself have acted:

" tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further Account of him this way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.”

Nicholas Rowe, Introduction to Works of Shakespeare, 1709
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