READING HAMLET

By Bronwyn Mellor. This book equips high school teachers and their students with college-level background information and discussion and activity ideas. Main topics include the conventions of revenge tragedies, the sources of the plays story, Shakespeares language and imagery, scene-by-scene lists of probing questions about the action and characters, and various evaluations of the characters of Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The overall goal of the book is to help students develop insight into dealing with a text that supports multiple interpretations (for one example, an activity re-imagining Hamlet as a Western, a gangster movie, a romance, a hospital drama, and science fiction). Grades 9–12. Bibliography. NCTE. 102 pages. 1999 American edition.

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