Hamlet: Original text and facing-pages translation into contemporary English (Access to Shakespeare)
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Book Description
THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET tells the struggle of an idealist entangled in a world of mean ambition and aggressive selfishness. Shakespeare's most mysterious play is a story of swirling conflicts between duty and conscience, love and remembrance, revenge and justice. The play reveals the action, the color, the intrigue, the hypocrisy, and the grandeur at the seat of power, whether in Shakespeare's time or in our own.
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Are you frustrated by obscure words and unidiomatic phrases in Shakespeare's plays? The new "Access to Shakespeare" series removes the mystery, not the magic, from HAMLET, and makes reading or studying a breeze. This translation of HAMLET into contemporary English -- alongside the original text -- has modernized the difficult passages and expressions which used to make Shakespeare's language such heavy weather.
This unique translation is NOT a literal-minded prose version. It retains the feel and the rhythm of the original, letting you experience the play in the same enjoyable way an Elizabethan audience did. The text is immediately clear to today's readers, making those tedious footnotes unnecessary. You'll find easy-to-follow line numbering, and a glossary of place names and mythological references.
Are you a high school or junior-college student working on an assignment? Do you wish to preview the play before a performance, or are you perhaps learning English as a Second Language? This translation is ideal for you. You will never again hesitate to read HAMLET because you're mystified by such lines as, "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee." The facing page of this edition of HAMLET makes clear what Shakespeare meant, "And bend the ready hinges of the knee."
The translation reads like a modern book and it's fascinating.
Hamlet: Original text and facing-pages translation into contemporary English (Access to Shakespeare)
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