Hamlet by William Shakespeare: The Know-It-All Version [Hardcover]

Welcome to Know-It-All Shakespeare. 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. Rather than just including a few footnotes, some sidenotes, and a frustratingly long introduction (that wont help if youve never read the play before), Know-It-All Shakespeare provides a guided tour. The commentaries that are interlaced between the lines of Shakespeare will support you, amuse you, challenge you, and empower you. Youll 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. Youll find space to read these works on your own terms, and youll even laugh sometimes. Shakespeare is a gift for everyone. Know-It-All Shakespeare delivers it.Rachel DeTemple has been teaching Shakespeare for more than two decades. She has awakened a love of Shakespeare in students from the Deep South (Mississippi) to the Far North (Alaska). She has made Shakespeare fun and approachable for reluctant readers, enthusiastic readers, downright hostile readers, fledgling readers, advanced readers, adult readers, teen readers, and everyone in between.

Rachel DeTemples unpretentiously engaging tone in her commentary on Hamlet makes her good company for first readers of the worlds most famous play. Her conversational observations aptly relating the words and actions to the world of studentsmake their encounter with the play an entertaining journey. Ralph Alan Cohen, Gonder Professor of Shakespeare, Mary Baldwin University; Founder Executive Director, American Shakespeare Center

At last, a Hamlet for ironic young readers. Rachel DeTemples version offers help and encouragement without burying the classic text in footnotes. Near the end, for example, when HamlelS,