From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a Fresh New Edition of Shakespeare's Most Celebrated Play. This Book Includes * an Introduction to Hamlet by Award-Winning Scholar Jonathan Bate * the Play - With Clear Explanatory Notes on Each Page * a Scene-By-Scene Analysis * an Introduction to Shakespeare's Career and the Elizabethan Theatre * a Rich Exploration of Approaches to Staging Hamlet the Most Enjoyable Way to Understand a Shakespeare Play is to See It or Participate in It. This Book Presents a Historical Overview of Hamlet in Performance, Recommends Film Versions, Takes a Detailed Look at Specific Productions and Includes Interviews With Three Leading Directors - Michael Boyd, Ron Daniels and John Caird - so That We May Get a Sense of the Extraordinary Variety of Interpretations That Are Possible - a Variety That Gives Shakespeare His Unique Capacity to Be Reinvented and Made 'Our Contemporary' Four Centuries After His Death.