Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life: "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom

Hamlet (The Annotated Shakespeare) - Harold Bloom, Burton Raffel, William Shakespeare

Published 2008.

 

“Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life” (title of a 2002 book by Fintan O’Toole).

 

The 23rd of April is almost upon us (*). Those of you who have been following my diatribes on this blog, know that I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Last year I put my Shakespeare project (“re-read everything from beginning to end”) on hold. I've decided that now is the time to jump-start this project. I want to read everything, starting with the plays I haven't read in a while, or at all, and moving to the ones I'm more familiar with. I'll post individual reviews as I go through. “Hamlet” had to be the first.

 

Why?

 

Read on.

 

The rest of this review is available elsewhere.

 

(*) This review was written before this date.