ASIN: B008OIWY5O
Publisher: Phoenix 11 Productions
Pages: 182
WANT TO UNDERSTAND AND ENJOY THE STORY OF HAMLET WITHOUT HAVING TO LOOK UP EVERY TENTH WORD? How about listening to the play in an audience with the same ease of comprehension as with any modern American play? NOW YOU CAN! And you can experience the play in an absolutely unique modern format.HAMLET DEAD is a modern reframing of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It was created for two basic reasons. First, many of Shakespeare’s words have simply become meaningless to the average American, some words have changed meanings, and the entire Elizabethan syntax is foreign to most Americans. Highly educated persons have difficulty understanding much of what they hear from a Shakespearean stage. Further, uncut printed versions of the play can take as much as four hours to perform on stage—consequently, all directors routinely cut large segments of the script. Therefore, not ...
