Rachel DeTemple’s version offers help and encouragement without burying the classic text in footnotes. Ralph Alan Cohen, Gonder Professor of Shakespeare, Mary Baldwin University Founder Executive Director, American Shakespeare CenterĪt last, a Hamlet for ironic young readers. Her conversational observations -aptly relating the words and actions to the world of students-make their encounter with the play an entertaining journey. Rachel DeTemple’s unpretentiously engaging tone in her commentary on Hamlet makes her good company for first readers of the world’s most famous play. You’ll find space to read these works on your own terms, and you’ll even laugh sometimes. You’ll get important supports and questions at just the right moments, get historical context in digestible bites, and arrive at the end with a thorough and satisfying understanding along with a deep appreciation of these works that will enrich your life as well as your confidence with Shakespeare. The commentaries that are interlaced between the lines of Shakespeare will support you, amuse you, challenge you, and empower you. Rather than just including a few footnotes, some sidenotes, and a frustratingly long introduction (that won’t help if you’ve never read the play before), Know-It-All Shakespeare provides a guided tour. Developed by a high-school English teacher, this series puts the richness of the Bard directly in your hand in a friendly and important way.
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