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It follows the form of a revenge tragedy, in which the hero, hamlet. The full text of this extraordinary drama is reprinted here from an authoritative british edition complete with illuminating footnotes. Hamlet audiobook by william shakespeare, full cast. Drawing on danish chronicles and the elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, shakespeare created a play that is at once a.
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The full text of this extraordinary drama is reprinted here from an. Set in the kingdom of denmark, the play dramatizes. A danish prince learns from his father now a ghost that he was murdered by his own brother claudius, who married the princes mother and took the throne. Set in the kingdom of denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge prince hamlet exacts on his uncle claudius for murdering king hamlet, claudiuss brother and prince hamlet s father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife gertrude, the old kings widow and prince. Read shakespeares hamlet, with sidebyside no fear translations into modern english.
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