Hamlet (The Annotated Shakespeare)

Hamlet (The Annotated Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)

Synopsis

The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 12 Sep 2003

ISBN 10: 0300101058
ISBN 13: 9780300101058

Media Reviews
This timely edition glosses Shakespeare's words which regularly stump students but which their overly optimistic teachers never notice. This is an edition for the students we actually teach, students for whom Early Modern English is a foreign language. Extremely useful and welcome. --D.E. Richardson, The University of the South (Sewanee) If any work deserves a student's closest attention, it is Hamlet. Burton Raffel's fully annotated edition is a teacher's and student's dream: the words are fully explained, and they get a wonderful essay by Harold Bloom as well. --George Soule, Carleton College

In a market glutted with editions of Shakespeare, this one stands out. The notes are helpful but not overwhelming, making it a great choice for classroom instructors and independent readers alike. --Kathryn Levesque, Choate Rosemary Hall

This edition is an invaluable resource for teachers and students who want to do justice to the complexity of the play's language. --Tanya Pollard, Assistant Professor of English, Montclair State University
Selected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

This timely edition glosses Shakespeare's words which regularly stump students but which their overly optimistic teachers never notice. This is an edition for the students we actually teach, students for whom Early Modern English is a foreign language. Extremely useful and welcome. --D.E. Richardson, The University of the South (Sewanee)
If any work deserves a student's closest attention, it is Hamlet. Burton Raffel's fully annotated edition is a teacher's and student's dream: the words are fully explained, and they get a wonderful essay by Harold Bloom as well. --George Soule, Carleton College

In a market glutted with editions of Shakespeare, this one stands out. The notes are helpful but not overwhelming, making it a great choice for classroom instructors and independent readers alike. --Kathryn Levesque, Choate Rosemary Hall


This edition is an invaluable resource for teachers and students who want to do justice to the complexity of the play's language. --Tanya Pollard, Assistant Professor of English, Montclair State University
Author Bio
Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cliges, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?