RSC Shakespeare: Hamlet

　　Review

　　'Jonathan Bate is a passionate advocate of Shakespeare and his introductions are full of striking and convincing observations ... footnotes at the bottom of each page gloss unfamiliar items of vocabulary, paraphrase tricky meanings and uncover bawdy puns. There is a universe to be found in these annotations: the Renaissance world of power and fate, sex and death, language and philosophy.' - Times Educational Supplement

　　Product Description
　　From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play.

　　This book includes:

　　*  An introduction to Hamlet by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate
　　*  The play – with clear explanatory notes on each page
　　*  A scene-by-scene analysis
　　*  An introduction to Shakespeare's career and the Elizabethan theatre
　　*  A rich exploration of approaches to staging Hamlet

　　The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This book presents a historical overview of Hamlet in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors – Michael Boyd, Ron Daniels and John Caird – so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible - a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after his death.