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Format: Unabridged-CD, Abridged-MP3, Unabridged-CD, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Published: Jan 2003
Genre: Drama - Shakespeare
Discs: 2
This is one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, learns in a visitation from his father's ghost that his mother is married to the uncle who murdered his father. In coming to terms with this, and enacting his revenge, his beloved Ophelia and her father are killed. In a duel to avenge Ophelia's father's death, both Hamlet and his opponent, Laertes, are struck by a sword that has been dipped in poison. Hamlet's mother mistakenly drinks from the cup of poison intended for Hamlet, bu