{"product_id":"2026200013450-secondhand-hamlet","title":"Hamlet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works in the Western canon have penetrated the human psyche as profoundly as Hamlet, William Shakespeare's towering tragedy of a Danish prince consumed by grief, moral paralysis, and an agonising mandate for revenge. Set against the rotting court of Elsinore, the play chronicles young Hamlet's confrontation with his father's ghost, his mother's hasty remarriage to the murderous King Claudius, and his own tortured inability to act — a conflict that spirals into madness, betrayal, and catastrophic violence. This Norton Critical Edition, edited by scholar Cyrus Hoy, presents an authoritative text accompanied by rich intellectual backgrounds, extracts from the sources that shaped Shakespeare's imagination, and a carefully curated selection of essays in criticism spanning centuries of scholarly thought.\n\nShakespeare's genius lies in his capacity to render the universal through the intensely particular, and Hamlet remains his most philosophically dense achievement — a work that has provoked Goethe, Coleridge, Freud, and countless others to project their own anxieties onto its enigmatic hero. Hoy's editorial apparatus illuminates the play's textual complexities and situates it within its literary and historical moment, making this edition an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike. With its synthesis of primary text, source material, and critical commentary, this volume invites the reader to ask the same unanswerable question that has haunted four centuries of audiences: why does Hamlet hesitate?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203382812891,"sku":"2026200013450-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a52f62b4-c93f-4ccf-bceb-b07848ee2518.png?v=1788148128","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013450-secondhand-hamlet","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}