The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement.

莎士比亚注解 "系列使读者能够充分理解和欣赏世界上最伟大的戏剧家的丰富戏剧。作为所有舞台作品中最常被阅读和表演的作品之一，莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》的复杂性和丰富性是无可比拟的。这部带有完整注释的《哈姆雷特》使21世纪的读者能够完全理解这部戏剧。它是在考虑到学生、教师和普通读者的情况下精心编排的。杰出的语言学家和翻译家伯顿-拉斐尔在伊丽莎白时期的英语词汇和用法、发音、语调以及短语和台词的替代读法方面提供了帮助。他的页面注释为读者提供了理解该剧并开始探索其多种可能的解释所需的所有工具。在他的介绍中，拉菲尔提供了关于哈姆雷特故事的起源和先前版本的重要背景，以及对哈姆雷特和奥菲利亚这两个人物的分析。在结语中，哈罗德-布鲁姆对莎士比亚的成就的独创性进行了思考。