A prophecy, a murdered king and a couple who cannot live with what they have done: Shakespeare's shortest tragedy moves faster than anything else he wrote.
The speed is part of the design, since the play gives its characters almost no room to reconsider once the first decision is taken, and the guilt arrives before the consequences do. At 160 pages this paperback carries the complete text, which is what a student or a theatre-goer actually needs rather than a summary. Fingerprint! Publishing presents it as a standalone volume for readers assembling the tragedies one at a time.
Core features:
• The complete play across 160 paperback pages
• Ambition, prophecy and guilt driving the action from the first scene
• Passages that supply some of the most quoted images in the language
• A Fingerprint! Publishing edition for the classics shelf
Aimed at school and university students, theatre audiences and readers working through Shakespeare, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and available from Boipoka.