Shakespeare can never be bad...
Advantages: Interesting, bloody exciting
Disadvantages: a bit dry and hard going
...This is a great play, and the third in the Henry the VI trilogy, it is facinating, and bloody though perhaps not as accessible as some of Shakespeare's other plays.
It tells the story of King Henry and his battles, especially with Richard, who has been ...
 mycatis 17.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Henry VI - Part III - William Shakespeare
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The testing of prince Hal
Advantages: sometimes serious, sometimes humourous
Disadvantages: not always historically accurate for example in reality Hal and Hotspur were seperated in age by over 20 years
...This history play has civil war as one of its main themes. It shows the problems of Henry IV's reign which Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed were caused by God's punishment for the crime of usurption - removing God's deputy on earth. The ...
AlexMayer 02.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Henry IV - Part I - William Shakespeare
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To be or not to be? Not to be personally!
Advantages: The last production had David Tennant as Hamlet!
Disadvantages: Reading and analysing can be painful and lengthy!
...of the fact I am putting this on two review sites and I am using it as a revision tool too.. I have a Hamlet exam on the 20th of January and my revision - well I'm trying!!! So I am using this as an aid to remind myself ab ...
ChemicalRomance 19.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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The Play's the Thing.
Advantages: A superb play.
Disadvantages: It may take a bit of effort if you are new to Shakespeare.
It is a fine summer afternoon in the year 1601. In the Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames the crowd waits in eager anticipation to see the new tragedy, Hamlet. The noise is deafening. In the covered galleries sit the merchants, the professiona ...
Baskin 02.12.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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An Artistic Failure?
Advantages: The best play ever written
Disadvantages: Um, Hamlet is the prince of my dreams
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Far from being an "artistic failure" as my favourite poet T. S. Eliot describes it, Hamlet is my favourite play of all time. Perhaps the best thing about this masterpiece, in addition to Shakespeare's very well-known mas ...
sottovoce82 17.05.2008 · Read full review
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