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No cover — William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor: Hamlet (2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

640 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ISBN:: 978-1-4081-4289-9

(1 review)

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of Hamlet, perhaps the most demanding in all of Western drama, has provided generations of leading actors their greatest challenge. Yet all the roles in this towering drama are superbly delineated, and each of the key scenes offers actors a rare opportunity to create theatrical magic. As if further evidence of Shakespeare's genius were needed, Hamlet is a unique pleasure to read as well as to see and hear performed. The full text of this extraordinary drama is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition complete with illuminating footnotes. (back …

In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished soliloquies that precede and follow them, probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art. The title role of Hamlet, perhaps the most demanding in all of Western drama, has provided generations of leading actors their greatest challenge. Yet all the roles in this towering drama are superbly delineated, and each of the key scenes offers actors a rare opportunity to create theatrical magic. As if further evidence of Shakespeare's genius were needed, Hamlet is a unique pleasure to read as well as to see and hear performed. The full text of this extraordinary drama is reprinted here from an authoritative British edition complete with illuminating footnotes. (back cover)

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4 stars

Nostalgic re-read. I remember reading this as it was being created, waiting for new updates to show up in my RSS reader.

Why I picked it up

First of all, this was hard to pick up! First of all, it's kind of hard to google "What was the name of that 'great' webcomic about ramen?" Secondly, the website is down. Luckily, all the material was preserved by archive.org's Wayback Machine, so I was able to download it and make a CBZ to read on my iPad.

I thought about it initially because I just finished Good to Great, and thinking about greatness in general, I remembered Mr. Phipps and how much I enjoyed this story. It was shorter overall than I remembered, but it was still really good.

What I want to remember

I still really like how the characters age and change over the course of the story. …

Nostalgic re-read. I remember reading this as it was being created, waiting for new updates to show up in my RSS reader.

Why I picked it up

First of all, this was hard to pick up! First of all, it's kind of hard to google "What was the name of that 'great' webcomic about ramen?" Secondly, the website is down. Luckily, all the material was preserved by archive.org's Wayback Machine, so I was able to download it and make a CBZ to read on my iPad.

I thought about it initially because I just finished Good to Great, and thinking about greatness in general, I remembered Mr. Phipps and how much I enjoyed this story. It was shorter overall than I remembered, but it was still really good.

What I want to remember

I still really like how the characters age and change over the course of the story. Lyle himself goes through so many changes and identities.

I thought, and continue to think, that Mr. and Mrs. Phipps's relationship is really interesting. I'm not even sure whether they're still actually together at the end. They both clearly love each other. They are wise enough to know that they are not really that great for each other. Mr. Phipps is too unreliable for Mrs. Phipps at the end, and if he doesn't resent her coddling him and carrying him success, then he at least recognizes it and chooses to do without it. And her. When she says she'll continue to be there for him "sometimes" is one of my favorite parts of the whole story, as is the fact that she keeps her word when you see her leaving and saying, "See you again next month, Lyle!" It's just a really interesting take on what makes a relationship successful.