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An intensely practical account of the way Hamlet actually works on stage.
Writing with the benefit of inside experience of many productions, actor and director Michael Pennington takes us through Hamlet scene by scene, and character by character. He also gives a personal account of his own encounters with the play, and of its staging through the ages.
'A wonderful book' Ronald Harwood
'Racy, vivid, well informed, and continuously entertaining' Stanley Wells
'An insider's guide par excellence' Simon Callow
'It is his range of knowledge - along with a gift for writing clearly and memorably - that makes him such a fine guide'- Times Literary Supplement
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Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington has played a variety of leading roles in the West End, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, for the National Theatre and for the English Shakespeare Company, of which he was co-founder and joint Artistic Director from 1986-1992. He has also directed several productions of Shakespeare's plays, including Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unusual kind of commentary on Hamlet; it provides a timeline of the play across all of the various scenes and acts with references to lines from the play. Following that is a section dealing with each role in the play, usual interpretations (with insights as to what works and doesn't work). Really quite useful to students of drama and English literature.