Hamlet: The Arkangel Shakespeare

I teach high school English, and I always have my students follow along with the CD in class. I teach both accelerated and regular level classes, and my students all thank me for using the CD. I tell them in the beginning it will help them, and they are amazed when they find out it actually does. They tell me it really does make it easier to understand when they can listen to it (versus just reading it by themselves). We stop periodically to discuss, and my students take notes, and with these three things, I have had much more success with Shakespeare in the classroom than in the past. And I have to admit - it has also helped me to understand some of it.

We love the Arkangel Shakespeare productions. Well done! I have a Shakespeare-loving nine and thirteen year old. Watching most made-into-movie Shakespeare plays is out of the question. We also don't have a lot of live Shakespeare plays produced in our area - and some wouldn't be appropriate for kids anyway. That said, these dramatized audio versions of Shakespeare's plays are great for all ages. We currently own only a couple of Arkangel Shakespeare but I will be adding to our collection.

with a lot of theese plays one either enjoys them or not, the production engages one or not. This one I both eenjoyed and found engaging. I think it is well done.

I used this audiobook to supplement my theatre class requires reading. The book was presented well.

When you search "Arkangel Macbeth" and then click on "New and Used" it switches your option to HAMLET. Looks like an error on Amazon's part. I have heard the Arkangel Macbeth audio before and it's really good (five stars) but I had to award my experience 0 stars (since Hamlet arrived at my doorstep). If you want to contact an actual human being at Amazon, they don't appear to exist. I guess I'll just keep my Hamlet CD and reorder.

A great audiotape. The voices capture the emotions of the characters and the background music fits the scenes. A benefit in the classroom!

Superior reading! I am using this in my classroom. It follows our text exactly and students understand it much better because of the expression the readers use. Excellent investment for instruction!

This production was very useful in the classes I teach; students enjoyed hearing the action of the play "live" while we listened to the CDs