Shakespeare Tales of Revenge
By William Shakespeare and Edith Nesbit
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.
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Shakespeare Tales of Revenge - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Edith Nesbit
Shakespeare
Tales of Revenge
Published by Sovereign Classic
This Edition
First published in 2018
Copyright © 2018 Sovereign
All Rights Reserved.
ISBN: 9781787249868
Contents
HAMLET
MACBETH
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
HAMLET
Hamlet was the only son of the King of Denmark. He loved his father and mother dearly—and was happy in the love of a sweet lady named Ophelia. Her father, Polonius, was the King’s Chamberlain.
While Hamlet was away studying at Wittenberg, his father died. Young Hamlet hastened home in great grief to hear that a serpent had stung the King, and that he was dead. The young Prince had loved his father so tenderly that you may judge what he felt when he found that the Queen, before yet the King had been laid in the ground a month, had determined to marry again—and to marry the dead King’s brother.
Hamlet refused to put off mourning for the wedding.
It is not only the black I wear on my body,
he said, that proves my loss. I wear mourning in my heart for my dead father. His son at least remembers him, and grieves still.
Then said Claudius the King’s brother, This grief is unreasonable. Of course you must sorrow at the loss of your father, but—
Ah,
said Hamlet, bitterly, I cannot in one little month forget those I love.
With that the Queen and Claudius left him, to make merry over their wedding, forgetting the poor good King who had been so kind to them both.
And Hamlet, left alone,