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Hamlet: By William Shakespeare
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
EAN: 9780393315059
ISBN: 0393315053
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1996-12
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Rating:  - Hamlet and Ken
This is a great supplment to go with the best and most complet hamlet ever made. Video is excellent
Rating: - Great; but what pictures??
I got a used copy off Amazon. It's great to have, and is very nice...but I keep reading about breathtaking pictures. Where? I think they were ripped out of my copy. At the very back there is evidence of at least one color page being ripped out...I don't know. But it is a wonderful film, play, and now a wonderful book to have. The film diary is very interesting.
Rating: - Pictures worth it alone
This screen play, introduction and film diary of Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh is like having several books in one. The screen play its self is based on the text of `Hamlet' as it appears in the `First Folio'.
You probably have several copies of Hamlet and maybe a few film versions. The advantage in this book is that it tells you what you are looking at. It goes beyond the inferences of Shakespeare's words and explains what they were trying to portray in the movie.
The introduction, ... Read More
Rating:  - Worthy exploration of forces behind the making of an epic
This book is useful to anyone interested in the film or theatre work of Kenneth Branagh, in Shakespeare on Screen, or film and theatre in general. As previous reviewers have mentioned, it comprises an introduction to the film/play by Kenneth Branagh, the full text of 'Hamlet' used during filming, production photographs and a 'film diary'.
The main purpose of my review is to correct the misapprehension of one previous reviewer about the writer of the 'film diary', in order to encourage interest in the ... Read More
Rating: - Hamlet the best Shakespeare
Hamlet is arguably the best play that Shakespeare ever wrote. This play has intrigue and misery and death everything that makes it Shakespeare but not only that it is more interesting not only in plot but in language than all the other plays. If you are not use to reading Shakespeare then you may have trouble understanding everything that is going on in this play.
The character of Hamlet is so interesting because his misery can be interpreted in so many different forms. Hamlet's misery can be construed ... Read More
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