Designed to appeal to the book lover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Shakespeare's combination of violence
introspection dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's
most widely studied and performed play and is a cornerstone of world literature. This edition
is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and includes an introduction by
Dr Robert Mighall. A young prince meets with his father's ghost who alleges that his own
brother now married to his widow murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth
of the ghost's accusation feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge until his
apparent insanity begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.
