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2023.
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In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
2) Hamlet
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Featuring the images of some of the world's most famous stage and film actors, these additions to the all-new Oxford School Shakespeare introduce--and enthrall--young people to one of the greatest writers of all time. This season brings revised editions of five of the Bard's most famous plays--As You Like It, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour Lost and The Taming of the Shrew. Designed specifically for students unfamiliar with Shakespeare's rich literary...
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Shakespeare invented characters in a new kind of way. He not only gave them personality and depth, he gave them life. Not a life that went simply from point to point, but one that developed rather than unfolded. In so doing, Shakespeare created characters with whom everyone can identify, whether the characters were kings and queens or fools and merchants. Renowned Shakespearian scholar Professor Harold Bloom presents Shakespeare's seven major tragedies...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Australia Pry Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Selby hates homework. She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies. So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't...
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Emergency playscripts volume 5
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Ugly Duckling Presse
Pub. Date
2017.
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"While algorithms are nothing new, in a world that has become a massive and ever-growing collection of data which only algorithms seem to have the capacity to efficiently access and interpret, it is their undeniable indispensability that is a relatively new phenomenon. What happens to theater in this algorithmically driven world, and what becomes possible when algorithms and the software they constitute are put to work to make theater? A Piece of...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive--very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in this stimulating and original study. Moreover, our desire to master this elusiveness, to "pluck the heart out of its mystery, " as Hamlet himself says, precisely mirrors what is going on in the play; and...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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This illustrated volume features seven classic plays by William Shakespeare, retold by E. Nesbit. Shakespeare Retold contains a selection of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, including Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as a historical timeline, a list of suggested reading materials, and a short biography of the bard himself.
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Fakespeare volume 1
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Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Three kids get lost inside Shakespeare's book and must help Hamlet finish his story in order to return home"--
14) Saving Hamlet
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Hyperion
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"Fifteen-year-old Emma is acting as stage manager for her school's production of Hamlet when she finds herself transported to the original staging of Hamlet in Shakespearean England"--
Emma Allen is excited to be starting her sophomore year as assistant stage manager for the drama club's production of Hamlet: her crush Brandon is directing. But when Emma is promoted to stage manager with no experience, her best friend Lulu stops talking to her, and...
15) Hamlet
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Spark Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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Based on the No Fear Shakespeare translations, this dynamic graphic novel is instinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teens.
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Spark Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the 'Sparknotes' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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The greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! William Shakespeare's Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. Now it's up to you to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father's death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page!
20) Hamlet
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Opus Arte
Pub. Date
[2018]
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This release is the world premiere recording of Brett Dean's new opera based on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Libretto by Matthew Jocelyn. Featuring Allan Clayton; Barbara Hannigan; Carah Connolly; and others. With the Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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