Completely Unabridged

Appreciate the linguistic richness of the original play text, broken into easily digested ‘bits’. In-line translation helps you to understand difficult words and phrases.

Hear it, See it

The combination of text, fully animated re-enactment and audio soundtrack helps you to decode Shakespeare’s prose and facilitates learners of varying abilities and learning styles.

Character Building

Character biographies can be accessed from either the main play or through a dedicated cast feature. An illustrated relationship map shows key characters and their inter-relationships in the play.

Ace that Exam

A wide selection of integrated analyses and study notes for each scene are provided to help you understand plot summaries, key themes, language, imagery and quotes from the play.

The tragic tale of the melancholy Dane

Set in the kingdom of Denmark, Shakespeare’s Hamlet recounts the tragic tale of Prince Hamlet. Mourning the death of his father and furious at his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle Claudius, Prince Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his late father, who indicts Claudius as his own killer. Swearing revenge and feigning (or perhaps, falling into) madness, Hamlet tests his uncle’s conscience by arranging the performance of an old play whose plot mirrors recent events.

However, an accidental, rage-induced killing of the eavesdropping court chamberlain, Polonius, puts into motion a disastrous course of events that will result in the mental demise and eventual deaths of an entire family line. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a vivid portrayal of love, hate, loyalty, revenge, overwhelming grief, seething rage, ambition, indecision, honesty and deception.

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

- Act 1 Scene 4