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Distressed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is haunted by a ghostly courier bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness as he struggles to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy. Shakespeare's most famous play remains one of the greatest stories in Western literature.
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Simon Russell Beale portrays the tragic Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's most quoted play, with actress Imogen Stubbs playing the fair Ophelia. This production of HAMLET, produced exclusively for the Archangel Shakespeare audio collection, is a gem worthy of repeated listening. Paul Jesson provides a beautifully dramatic, but strangely un-ghostly, soliloquy as the King's ghost. Also in the cast are Jane Lapotaire as Gertrude, Bob Peck as the murderous and incestuous Claudius, and the late Norman Rodway as the garrulous Polonius. Music composed by Dominique Le Gendre supplies evocative interludes between scenes, and a handy printed insert provides a track list, cast list, and scene-by-scene summary of the play. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Hamlet (Arkangel Shakespeare), Dec 15 2009
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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!
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Fantastic Teaching Aid, April 1 2010
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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.
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The next best thing..., Jan 26 2009
By C. McCloskey "Auntie C" - Published on Amazon.com
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I started listening to the Arkangel series because of David Tennant (Doctor Who). Since then I've become addicted to this series, buying what I cannot borrow. The full cast of actors present the material in a very natural style, quite different from the respectful, poetic style that I was exposed to in school so many years ago. I've even gone through four of the histories, something that I never intended to do.Read all the other reviews for well-considered, thoughtful reviews, especially in comparison to other offerings. I just know that I am enjoying listening to these CDs just for fun.
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