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The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (The Folger library general reader's Shakespeare) Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1958

by William Shakespeare (Author)

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In recent years, ways of dealing with Shakespeare’s texts and with the interpretation of his plays have been undergoing significant change. The New Folger editions, while retaining many of the features that have always made the Folger Shakespeare so attractive to the general reader, at the same time reflects these current ways of thinking about Shakespeare.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books (January 1, 1958)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671428845
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671428846
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces

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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Zeth preza

The pages in the book cant even stay together

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023

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I was halfway reading this book when I figured out the book was falling apart and all the pages somehow detached from the spine

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2017

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I don't understand the positive reviews on this product. It is absolute garbage. Poor print quality, no annotations...it doesn't even have a title page. It looks like it was printed in someone's dorm room. I do all my shopping online and have never written a negative product review before, but this one is really over-the-top bad.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2023

In at least four places, the editors have excised sexual references from the text: (1) two lines in II,ii are omitted about Guildenstern and Rosencrantz being "Fortune's privates"; (2) Hamlet's bawdy taunting of Ophelia at the play-within-the-play about lying between her legs and "country matters" are cut; (3) in III,iv Hamlet's disgusted imagining of Gertrude and Claudius having sex ("the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed") is left out; and in IV, v Ophelia's sexual additions to her mad song are not printed. The first of these is arguably trivial, but the other three are crucial to Hamlet and Ophelia's character and view of the world. There may be other omissions too, but those are the four I noticed.

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019

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The book shown and what I received does NOT match the ISBN numbers it claims to be. Do not order if you need a specific version.