LibGuides: YEAR 11 : HAMLET: Home

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This LitChart study guide for Hamlet includes a detailed summary and analysis, themes, characters, symbols and quotes.
SparkNotes
First performed around 1600, Hamlet tells the story of a prince whose duty to revenge his father’s death entangles him in philosophical problems he can’t solve. Shakespeare’s best-known play is widely regarded as the most influential literary work ever written. Read a character analysis of Hamlet , plot summary, and important quotes.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet follows the young prince Hamlet home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral. Hamlet is shocked to find his mother already remarried to his Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother. And Hamlet is even more surprised when his father's ghost appears and declares that he was murdered. Exact dates are unknown, but scholars agree that Shakespeare published Hamlet between 1601 and 1603. Many believe that Hamlet is the best of Shakespeare's work, and the perfect play.
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Introduction

Hamlet is a five-act tragedy by the English dramatist William Shakespeare. Its full title is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It is included among Shakespeare's mature tragedies, written during the third period of his artistic development. Experts believe that Shakespeare wrote the first version of Hamlet between 1599 and 1601. The full version did not appear until 1623. With the other tragedies King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, Hamlet stands out among Shakespeare's finest work and is regarded by many as his greatest play and one of the world's great dramas.

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Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Hamlet Summary

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Shakespeare's Life and Times

http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#early-works-histories-and-comedies
William Shakespeare, often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time.
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/intro/index.html
Shakespeare's Life and Times introduces you to the world Shakespeare lived and worked in. This section of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is like a shelf of books, each of which is listed in the navigational bar beneath the page header. Each book, in turn, is divided into chapters dealing with related topics.

Library Resources

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Call Number: 822.33 I
ISBN: 9781853268953
Publication Date: 1996
Hamlet by Richard Appignanesi
Call Number: 822.33 H
ISBN: 9780955285615
Publication Date: 2007
Shakespeare's Hamlet by Adam Sexton; Tintin Pantoja; William Shakespeare
Call Number: 822.33 H
ISBN: 9780470097571
Publication Date: 2008
Hamlet by Peter Washington
Call Number: 822.33 S8
ISBN: 9780330502801
Publication Date: 1991
Hamlet by Sheila Mathieson
Call Number: 822.33 S8
ISBN: 9780330501927
Publication Date: 1985
The Usborne internet-linked world of Shakespeare by Treays, Rebecca. Brooks, Felicity. Claybourne, Anna.
Call Number: 822.33 D
ISBN: 9780746045640
Publication Date: 2001
Mr William Shakespeare's plays by Shakespeare, William. Williams, Marcia.
Call Number: 822.33 M
ISBN: 9780744555028
Publication Date: 1998
Shakespeare: A life by Wignall, Paul. Greenhill, Wendy.
Call Number: 822.33 B
ISBN: 043107528X
Publication Date: 1996
Shakespeare: court, crowd and playhouse by Laroque, Francois.
Call Number: 822.33 B
ISBN: 9780500300350
Publication Date: 1993
Shakespeare: his work & his world by Ingpen, Robert. Rosen, Michael.
Call Number: 822.33 B
ISBN: 9780744555813
Publication Date: 2001
Great Elizabethan Playwrights by Don Nardo
Call Number: 822.309 NAR
ISBN: 9781590180174
Publication Date: 2002
A History of the Elizabethan Theater by Adam Woog
Call Number: 792.0942 WOO
ISBN: 9781590180990
Publication Date: 2003
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray
Call Number: F RAY
ISBN: 9780316101615
Publication Date: 2012
Tudor and Stuart Life by John Guy
Call Number: 941.05 GUY
ISBN: 9781860070037
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Kings and Queens by John Guy
Call Number: 941.04 GUY
ISBN: 9781860070198
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
Timeline of the Renaissance by Charlie Samuels
Call Number: 940.21 SAN
ISBN: 9781433934865
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Great Ideas of the Renaissance by Trudee Romanek
ISBN: 9780778746164
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Cities and Statecraft in the Renaissance by Lizann Flatt
Call Number: 940.21 FLA
ISBN: 9780778746157
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Everyday Life in Renaissance Times by Antony Mason
Call Number: 940.231 MAS
ISBN: 9781583407103
Publication Date: 2005-08-01
The Renaissance by Claybourne, Anna
Call Number: 940.21 CLA
ISBN: 9781406208122
Publication Date: 2008