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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
Each No Fear Shakespeare contains
- The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary
Product Details
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: SparkNotes (April 15, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1586638440
- ISBN-13: 978-1586638443
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:5.0 out of 5 stars Golden Gate to Shakespeare,Bravo to the writers, editors, and publishers of the entire No Fear Shakespeare series. Rendering Shakespeare into prosaic, colloquial American English not only explains what Shakespeare was saying, but reveals how much better he said it! Here's a few examples from HAMLET:January 24, 2006
Hamlet sees the Ghost, but his mother doesn't. In modern lingo, she says, "This is only a figment of your imagination." That's a cliche. In the original, she says, "This is the very coinage of your brain." That's vivid.
Rosencrantz tells Hamlet in modern lingo, "You're not doing yourself any good by refusing to tell your friends what's bothering you." Sounds like a reprimand. The original line sounds like a threat: "You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend."
Hamlet remembers his mother's relationship with his father: "She would hang on to him, and the more she was with him the more she wanted to be with him; she couldn't get enough of him." Sounds good, but the original sounds disturbing: "Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetitite had grown / By what it fed on . . ." Change the word "she" to "it" and you have the image of a parasite. That alone says a lot about Hamlet's view of women and sex.
I know of no better guide to reading, understanding, and appreciating Shakespeare than Spark Notes' No Fear Shakespeare series.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:5.0 out of 5 stars Getting Into Shakespeare,October 29, 2005 Man, I wish I would've had this book 25 years ago!By The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert) - See all my reviews
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I've always been interested in Shakespeare but it's been hard introducing anyone else I know to the greatness of his plays: the language is just too hard for most people to follow.
Thankfully, the No Fear Shakespeare books have come along, and I've been buying them for myself as well as others. It's wonderful to have a side-by-side comparison of the Bard's original lines with a modern translation that makes the play easy to read.
I hope the publishers do this with all of Shakespeare's plays!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:5.0 out of 5 stars Hamlet Spark Notes No Fear Shakespeare,May 27, 2007 This is truly a No Fear way to understand Shakespeare. There is a modern day interpretation writing on one side of the book and the Shakespeare way on the other. It was a lifesaver!By Katherine Costa (Antioch, California United States) - See all my reviews
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2.0 out of 5 stars No fear? No proper understanding.
I'll use one line to show the problem with this text. Many other lines have a similar problem. Shakespeare has:
"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to... Read morePublished 5 months ago by Malcolm Black
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must have for HS students
What is there to say?? If your a person living in the 21st century you probably have no idea the terms used in Shakespeare's time, so its basically hopeless reading the play... Read morePublished 7 months ago by Sara
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a Review of Hamlet, but of "No Fear Shakespeare"
It would serve no useful purpose to write a review of Hamlet. It has already taken its rightful place among mankind's greatest works. Read morePublished 17 months ago by Big D
5.0 out of 5 stars My lifesaver
This is my second No Fear Shakespeahere book (last year had Macbeth) and I have come to love Shakespheare plays now that I actually know what each character is saying and what... Read morePublished 17 months ago by Eric Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't be any better
This book is definitely God's gift to all college students. Truly easy to understand, I read the entire book in 1 day. Thanks to "No Fear" I got an "A" in my English class.Published 18 months ago by Jaclyn Soyama Reis
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