Hamlet: Prince Of Denmark

Author: William Shakespeare

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  • : $18.00 NZD
  • : 9781909621862
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
  • : Macmillan Collector's Library
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  • : 0.154
  • : July 2016
  • : 150mm X 93mm
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  • : 19.99
  • : July 2016
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  • : William Shakespeare
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  • : English
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Description

Hamlet By William Shakespeare 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 Gertrude, 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

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A complete and unabridged gift edition of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy

Author description

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is unknown but is celebrated on 23 April, which happens to be St George's Day, and the day in 1616 on which Shakespeare died. Aged eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. By 1595 he had written five of his history plays, six comedies and his first tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. In all, he wrote thirty-seven plays and much poetry, and earned enormous fame in his own lifetime in prelude to his immortality.