- Paperback: 20 pages
- Publisher: Samuel French Ltd (Jun 1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0573025061
- ISBN-13: 978-0573025068
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 11.6 x 0.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 414,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Seen it, done it, got the proverbial tshirt. I never thought Hamlet could be funny, until I saw it condensed into 13 minutes - and then in 2. A heavily condensed version of Hamlet, still with Shakespeare's text, still with the same story line - but speeded up. Now there's no need to sit through the full 4 hours! With 6 people playing all the characters, it is both a challenge for the actors and a visual spectacle for the audience. Hilarious in every aspect - has to be seen/done to be believed!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Succinct Shakespeare at its Best!
7 April 1999
Format:Paperback
Not only does Tom Stoppard brilliantly compress one of Shakespeare's longer plays into 15 minutes, he even adds on a 2 minute encore!! A hilarious edition of one of Shakespeare's lasting works. A great play for a cast to perform (trust me, I know!). Loads of fun to read AND perform.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
wonderful play!!!
13 Jun 1998
Format:Paperback
This is a little known but great play. It is not so much that the actual wording is so good, in fact, any cast looking at this would think that it is gut-wrenchingly stupid. It is all in the presentation. Shakespeare's longest play ever... cut down into fifteen minutes. Who needs the rest anyway?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A little known classic
16 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
It says something about Tom Stoppard's sense of humour that he considers Shakespeare's longest play (which often runs for over four hours when performed) perfectly fair game to be ultra-truncated into a short, 15 minute performance.
This play is rarely performed these days as nobody really pays to go and see a performance they know will last just 15 minutes. However, the play forms the core of Stoppard's `Dogg's Hamlet' and also effectively forms the last 15 minutes of the comedy performance, `The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)', so you may have seen it in one of those contexts.
This play, then, is to Hamlet what `1066 And All That' is to English history - it gives you not everything, but just everything you can remember: it has all the quotable and famous lines and contains just enough plot that you can understand the whole play. And if you already know Hamlet quite well, then the choice of dialogue and scenes for inclusion and the rapid changes from one to another are quite funny; the joke might fall flat on those seeing Hamlet for the first time, but it's a rare hilarious gem for those in the know.
Read the book, or better yet - track down a performance, or use this script to stage one yourself.
This play is rarely performed these days as nobody really pays to go and see a performance they know will last just 15 minutes. However, the play forms the core of Stoppard's `Dogg's Hamlet' and also effectively forms the last 15 minutes of the comedy performance, `The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)', so you may have seen it in one of those contexts.
This play, then, is to Hamlet what `1066 And All That' is to English history - it gives you not everything, but just everything you can remember: it has all the quotable and famous lines and contains just enough plot that you can understand the whole play. And if you already know Hamlet quite well, then the choice of dialogue and scenes for inclusion and the rapid changes from one to another are quite funny; the joke might fall flat on those seeing Hamlet for the first time, but it's a rare hilarious gem for those in the know.
Read the book, or better yet - track down a performance, or use this script to stage one yourself.
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