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Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare) |  | Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: SparkNotes
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 8730
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 1586638440
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9781586638443
ASIN: 1586638440
Publication Date: April 15, 2003
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Product Description
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary
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 Golden Gate to Shakespeare January 24, 2006
Night Owl
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
Bravo to the writers, editors, and publishers of the entire No Fear Shakespeare series. Rendering Shakespeare into prosaic, colloquial American English not only explains what Shakespeare was saying, but reveals how much better he said it! Here's a few examples from HAMLET:
Hamlet sees the Ghost, but his mother doesn't. In modern lingo, she says, "This is only a figment of your imagination." That's a cliche. In the original, she says, "This is the very coinage of your brain." That's vivid.
Rosencrantz tells Hamlet in modern lingo, "You're not doing yourself any good by refusing to tell your friends what's bothering you." Sounds like a reprimand. The original line sounds like a threat: "You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend."
Hamlet remembers his mother's relationship with his father: "She would hang on to him, and the more she was with him the more she wanted to be with him; she couldn't get enough of him." Sounds good, but the original sounds disturbing: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetitite had grown / By what it fed on . . ." Change the word "she" to "it" and you have the image of a parasite. That alone says a lot about Hamlet's view of women and sex.
I know of no better guide to reading, understanding, and appreciating Shakespeare than Spark Notes' No Fear Shakespeare series.
Getting Into Shakespeare October 29, 2005
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Man, I wish I would've had this book 25 years ago!
I've always been interested in Shakespeare but it's been hard introducing anyone else I know to the greatness of his plays: the language is just too hard for most people to follow.
Thankfully, the No Fear Shakespeare books have come along, and I've been buying them for myself as well as others. It's wonderful to have a side-by-side comparison of the Bard's original lines with a modern translation that makes the play easy to read.
I hope the publishers do this with all of Shakespeare's plays!
Hamlet Spark Notes No Fear Shakespeare May 28, 2007
Katherine Costa (Antioch, California United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is truly a No Fear way to understand Shakespeare. There is a modern day interpretation writing on one side of the book and the Shakespeare way on the other. It was a lifesaver!
My lifesaver February 13, 2008
Eric Williams (Conway, AR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my second No Fear Shakespeahere book (last year had Macbeth) and I have come to love Shakespheare plays now that I actually know what each character is saying and what exactly is going on. The lines are clean and clear just like reading a modern play. I acutally find myself laughing at lines which is always a good sign meaning that I understand what's going on. Also I don't feel like I'm cheating like when people just read footnotes and summaries. I'm in college now and I've only read two shakespheare both using No Fear Shakespheare! Great product that I without a doubt will use in the future if needed!
Not a Review of Hamlet, but of "No Fear Shakespeare" February 19, 2008
Big D (Auburn, AL. USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It would serve no useful purpose to write a review of Hamlet. It has already taken its rightful place among mankind's greatest works. The subject here is not Hamlet, but the manner in which it is presented:
Numbered, original text on the left hand page, modern, up-to-date language on the right hand page.
As with all of Spark Notes editors, an excellent way to present the play, for the first time junior high reader or for the 62-year old reader taking a Shakespeare course and reading Hamlet just for fun.
And as for Hamlet, the play? Like fine wine it gets better, much better, with age.
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