Hamlet

By Shakespeare, William

Book Id: WPLBN0002950050
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File Size: 112.01 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Hamlet
Author:	Shakespeare, William
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Tragedy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Hamlet
Historic Publication Date:	1602
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Shakespeare, B. W. (1602). Hamlet. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
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?

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Tragedy