Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Hamlet is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.
This book is part of a book series called Oxford School Shakespeare .
There are 208 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2009 by Oxford University Press .
Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Series editor, Roma Gill, has taught Shakespeare at all levels, and has acted in, directed, and given lectures on Shakespeare's plays the world over.
This book contains the following story:
Hamlet
One dark night, Hamlet, prince of Denmark, sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost, or did he just imagine it? And if he did see a ghost, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to avenge his father by killing Claudius. But the man he stabs isn't Claudius, as he thinks, but his girlfriend's father. So the wrong man dies. So much tragedy, but there is more to come as Hamlet's apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.
