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Hamlet :-\
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... Does anybody know any websites or anything that could help me understand it a little bit better??
fluffy bunny
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I was always under the impression that Shakespeare was meant to be watched, not read. I'd go and find one of the movie versions that hasn't taken too much 'artistic license' with the material.
Don't worry - Hamlet's not too bad once you come to grips with the basic plot. Try not to overanalyse it (at least until you get the gist of it).
Don't worry - Hamlet's not too bad once you come to grips with the basic plot. Try not to overanalyse it (at least until you get the gist of it).
bookclubnazi
New Member
i looove hamlet.
read a plot summation on-line (just google it, i'm sure something will come up.) didn't ethan hawke star in a film version of hamlet a couple years ago? that might be better than the 40-yr-old version you're probably seeing in class. ; )
hth.
read a plot summation on-line (just google it, i'm sure something will come up.) didn't ethan hawke star in a film version of hamlet a couple years ago? that might be better than the 40-yr-old version you're probably seeing in class. ; )
hth.
ecks
New Member
They have a special edition of Hamlet, where each chapter is summarized, and on every page, all the hard words are explained. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...04/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-9236479-9891255
StillILearn
New Member
Way too late to be of any help to Shorty at all , but...
SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT THE BORING BITS
Humphrey Carpenter - Author
'Hi, fellas . . . I got a guy called Banquo and his kid son coming over here for a meal. See he gets a knuckle sandwich instead.'
Though written nearly four hundred years ago, the stories in Shakespeare's plays are relevant to any age. Stories of love, hate, jealousy, murder, greed and magic. Comedies and tragedies to appeal to every taste.
Humphrey Carpenter has retold the stories from nine of Shakespeare's plays in an original and exciting way. Using contemporary language each story is told from a different character's point of view and in different style.
Hear what Juliet's nurse thought about her young charge's affair with Romeo; read Bill Shakes' interview with Henry V from the battlefield at Agincourt; listen to Bottom's drunken rap as he tells of his Midsummer Night's Dream; share Cassius's remorse over the killing of Julius Caesar and laugh at Toby Belch's letters as he tries to untangle the farce of Twelfth Night.
SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT THE BORING BITS
Humphrey Carpenter - Author
'Hi, fellas . . . I got a guy called Banquo and his kid son coming over here for a meal. See he gets a knuckle sandwich instead.'
Though written nearly four hundred years ago, the stories in Shakespeare's plays are relevant to any age. Stories of love, hate, jealousy, murder, greed and magic. Comedies and tragedies to appeal to every taste.
Humphrey Carpenter has retold the stories from nine of Shakespeare's plays in an original and exciting way. Using contemporary language each story is told from a different character's point of view and in different style.
Hear what Juliet's nurse thought about her young charge's affair with Romeo; read Bill Shakes' interview with Henry V from the battlefield at Agincourt; listen to Bottom's drunken rap as he tells of his Midsummer Night's Dream; share Cassius's remorse over the killing of Julius Caesar and laugh at Toby Belch's letters as he tries to untangle the farce of Twelfth Night.
soxfan
New Member
I found a page with a number of Hamlet-related links:
http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/hamlet.html
The Mel Gibson version was entertaining, Ethan Hawke's was intense but often modern for the sake of being modern, and Kenneth Branagh's take is to be avoided at all costs.
http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/hamlet.html
The Mel Gibson version was entertaining, Ethan Hawke's was intense but often modern for the sake of being modern, and Kenneth Branagh's take is to be avoided at all costs.