Hamlet (Wordsworth Classics)

very nice Reed well worth the money

I had to read it for school, not a bad book.

Ottimo perfetto grazie

The glossary and notes at the end of the book are really helpful. I didn't find these features in any other publication. The notes help us to understand the puns and context of the dialogues better.

I bought this edition of Hamlet as I needed a sturdy copy of the play that was easily portable in terms of size and weight. I was a little worried because some reviewers had raised doubts as to the quality of the edition, but I can now say that these are misplaced. I have used the book quite intensively for a few months, underlining text and writing notes in it, but the binding is still holding up well. The paper quality is good, the typescript is of a decent size, and the layout of the text is easy on the eye.There is a brief but balanced introduction (which is particularly useful for such an iconic play with so rich a history); a biographical note on Shakespeare; and an informative few pages in which the editor (a professor of English at the University of Sussex) explains which text he has chosen to include from the various iterations of the play. As someone who is familiar with Hamlet, both as a reader and a theatre-goer, I applaud his choices. The text also has line numbers and footnotes (the notes are at the back of the volume and so do not clutter the page), and a generous glossary for those who might be unfamiliar with the subtleties of the language used by England's greatest writer.The publisher has really got this edition right. It's neither fussy nor pretentious; it just allows the poetic text of this beautiful tragedy to speak for itself. If you buy this book you can have a working copy of the greatest single piece of literature yet produced by humankind, and you can have it for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

Nothing, it was a Shakespeare book I wanted to read.

The cover was worn out. Disappointed.