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Title: I got this copy of Hamlet with my Grade 12 English class.
Review: It comes with the complete play, plus side-by-side definitions of the more obscure English words used and illustrations. Also included are essays on Shakespeare, his life, Elizabethan England and so forth to help put the play in perspective. Through high school, I had to study a total of three Shakespeare plays, the other two being Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, and this was the best of the bunch. And that's considering at the end of Macbeth we watched Roman Polanski's blood-soaked movie version, and the 1935 Midsummer Night's Dream movie starring a very young (read: annoying) Mickey Rooney as puck. And if you're curious, we watched Mel Gibson's Hamlet movie. Kenneth Branagh's was still a few years away and it would've taken us a whole week to sit through that.
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