About William Shakespeare's Hamlet, edited by Doctor Rappaport

 

 

"Rappaport's edition of Hamlet boldly realigns interpretation of the play with a critical tradition that values close reading, ponders moral questions that are universally applicable to human experience, and celebrates the achievement of great authors... [It) is the kind of achievement that requires a love of one's subject no less than a commitment to finding the truth. As an editor and scholar, Rappaport demonstrates these qualities to a superlative degree."
 

-SEAN KEILEN, Professor of Literature and Founding Director of

the Shakespeare Workshop,

University of California at Santa Cruz

 

 

"..Rappaport has given a 'divine shaping' to Shakespeare's play by synthesizing centuries of sources and scholarship. His two-column format rewards our eyes and rewords our reading, making the long-since familiar something 'wondrous strange again. Teachers and students, actors and directors alike will benefit from this loving labor of unfolding."

 

-SCOTT NEWSTOK,

Professor of English and

Director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment, Rhodes College,

and author of

How to Think Like Shakespeare:

Lessons from a Renaissance Education

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"...an in-depth, powerful analysis of Hamlet that…returns the Bard's original intentions to modern audiences, [and] explains why they were misinterpreted in the first place."
 

— D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

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About Appreciating Shakespeare by Doctor Rappaport

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"The book will appeal to a general readership-anyone who wants to enter more deeply into the richness of Shakespeare's works-though it will also offer valuable material for scholars... [it] reads like a friend introducing you to a new world and pointing you in the right direction..."
 

—Walker Larson, Epoch Times

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"A brilliantly presented introduction to the literary excellence of Shakespeare in a format that will appeal to both students, academia, and non-specialist general readers alike... especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, high-school, college, and university library Shakespeare collections..."
 

—Midwest Book Review 

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