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  • Published: 21 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396507
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00

Hamlet

Staged: the origins of YA’s greatest tropes





Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. When young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost on the battlements of Castle Elsinore, he is burdened with a terrible task: slay King Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, who the ghost alleges murdered him. Wrestling with his conscience, Hamlet feigns wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge, alienating his mother Queen Gertrude and spurning his lover Ophelia. But his apparent insanity wreaks havoc on guilty and innocent alike.

  • Published: 21 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141396507
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $21.00

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