Books with title Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College (now Kean University) in 1982, he designed his own course, in which he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet. Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua did not simply complete his nearly four-hour radio adaption of Shakespeare's greatest work. He did so while carrying a double major in speech-theater-media-communication and English and while producing, acting in, and sometimes writing radio plays for the WKNJ Radio Theater he founded at the college station. He also portrayed Dr. Martn Dysart in Equus on the Kean Stage and worked 24 hours per week as the assistant manager of Kean's Writing and Math Lab. After graduating summa cum laude, Bevilacqua saw his production of Hamlet picked up and distributed by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) and aired on public radio stations nationwide. Bevilacqua went on to become one of the most prolific radio-drama producers in the United States as well as an on-camera actor in such films as The Fly Room and The Better Angels. He also appeared in television shows, including portraying British General Bernard Montgomery in the History Channel's The Wars and the head of NBC in 1931 for HBO's Boardwalk Empire. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle, Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father, and subsequently seized the throne. He also married his deceased brother's widow, Gertrude.

One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmographyFrom the Paperback edition.

The young Danish Prince, Hamlet, is vexed by a trip home to Denmark from school in Germany, to attend his father, the king's funeral. Upon arriving at home, Hamlet has discovered that his mother has already become married to the former King's brother, Hamlet's uncle. What's more, the man has declared himself to be King of Denmark even though Hamlet was the true and rightful heir. Hamlet is enraged by this deception, and immediately suspects foul play in his father's murder. Hamlet is challenged to prove that his father's untimely death was murder, when the king's ghost appears before Hamlet in the castle and confides in him the truth of his death. The ghost tells the story of how his brother Claudius, the new king, poisons him and Hamlet's mother is in on the scheme. The apparition charges Hamlet to avenge his death, but to take pity on the queen. Hamlet agonizes over what he should do, wondering if the ghost was really an agent of the devil sent to tempt him. When he finally devises a plan to bring out the truth in King Claudius, things go exactly as Hamlet suspected. Hamlet's path to revenge leaves more death in its wake as he tries to bring down the king and get justice for his father.

Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness--from overwhelming grief to seething rage--and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

Critics have long called Hamlet a problematic, difficult, even undramatic play. Shakespeare appears less interested in conventional plot development, or even character development of minor characters, and instead focuses on a specific theme: the difficulty of action, the corruption of the soul and of the world, and eternal consequences. But for all that Hamlet is one of the most theatrical and self-conscious of Shakespearean plays. The play-within-a-play is but the most obvious example of how Shakespeare removes the actors from the audience. Hamlet is "meta" in the same way much early 21st Century culture is frequently so: we are constantly called to remember that the action on the stage is not real, that the actors are merely reciting lines in some larger drama. ---from the Introduction to this edition

One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmographyFrom the Paperback edition.

Shakespeare (1564-1616) was the greatest playwright and poet in the English language. This edition of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" is from The First Folio that was published posthumously in 1623. "Hamlet" was written between 1599 to 1601 and was Shakespeare’s longest play. The story was set in the Late Middle Ages (14th - 15th centuries) in Kronborg Castle in Helsingør (renamed by Shakespeare to Elsinore), Denmark. Shakespeare’s telling of the story of Prince Hamlet was derived from several notable sources:1.Books III and IV of "Gesta Danorum" (“History of the Danes,” 1200 CE) by Saxo Grammaticus (surname acquired because of his eloquent and flawless Latin); Saxo’s "Gesta Danorum" was the first important work of Danish history and tells of the rise and fall of their great rulers; and 2.Volume 5 (1570 CE) of "Histoires Tragiques," a French translation of Saxo by François de Belleforest. Saxo’s account of "Amleth" is thought to be the source for Hamlet—a clue is “Hamlet” is an anagram of “Amleth.” However, Shakespeare’s Hamlet owes but the outline of his story to Saxo. Following is a version of Amleth’s story adapted from “The Traditional Hamlet,” Chapter XXII of Donald A. Mackenzie’s Teutonic Myth and Legend (1912?):"King Rorik (a Viking and King of Denmark and Sweden) made two brothers, Horwendil and Feng, joint governors of Jutland. Their father, Gerwendil, was governor before them. Horwendil, the chief ruler, sought glory as a sea rover and challenged King Koll of Norway to fight a duel on a sea island they both wanted. Horwendil, being the bolder, suddenly flung his shield aside and grasped his sword with both hands. He made such a furious attack upon the King of Norway’s shield that it split in two, and Horwendil severed his foot. Relentless, Horwendil continued his vicious attack until King Koll fell dead before him. As Horwendil’s victories increased, so did his many gifts to King Rorik, who made him King of Jutland. The King’s beautiful daughter, Gerutha, wed Horwendil, and they had a son, Amleth. Due to his brother’s fortune and renown, Feng was stricken with jealously and killed Horwendil. Thereafter, he married Gerutha and usurped his brother’s throne. Feng declared to his new subjects that he had slain his brother to rescue Gerutha from Horwendil’s cruelty and threat of murder. Amleth was not deceived and, fearing for his own safety, feigned madness with great cunning so that he could live to slay the usurper."This annotated version of Shakespeare’s longest play includes the following:•385 endnotes that reference historical and mythological explanations as well as definitions of “Early Modern English.” The editor was determined to remain as close as possible to Shakespeare’s poetry and the timeless rhythm of his writing.•30 illustrations. Even though twenty-first century audiences are still enthralled by Shakespeare’s plays, he wrote for seventeenth century audiences. Sword fights were combined with a wealth of allegory, metaphor, and humorous caricatures that regaled audiences. During their reigns, both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I were his patrons.

John Austen's hauntingly illustrated edition, published in 1922, remains unparalleled among all other treatments of Hamlet to this day. An adherent of the Aesthetic Movement in England that included Aubrey Beardsley and James A. M. Whistler, Austen shifted to a much more commercial style later in his career, and Hamlet is one of the few artifacts of the early pinnacle of his creativity. Black-line plates and ornamental illustrations throughout.

Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then appears and charges Claudius with ‘murder most foul.’ Hamlet is called to revenge his father’s death: but will he be able to act before it is too late?