Book, Hamlet or Amleto?: Shakespeare for curious young people and adults[LS]

A guide that takes the reader on an irresistible journey through the Shakespearean universe and through one of the most important and central texts of theater and our culture. Award-winning writer Rodrigo Lacerda makes an adaptation that not only retells the story of Prince Hamlet, just as Shakespeare wrote it , but it puts the curious young reader (and also the lazy adult) in direct contact with the power of his dramatic poetry. Much more than a simple adaptation, what we have is, in fact, a guide to Hamlet. The author presents Shakespeare's original - informing, commenting and delving into all the references about each act and scene of the play - and weaves it with his own modern narrative and in contemporary language of the story of the Danish prince. As Luis Fernando Verissimo says in the fourth cover text, "what Rodrigo did was not Shakespeare for the simple, it was helping to overcome obstacles and go straight to the unforgettable, the fantastic and the poetic. Hamlet purified, a shortcut to enchantment ". At the end, the book has an appendix with three brief sections where Lacerda indicates and lists: "Hamlets that I read", "Hamlets that I saw" and "Praises, criticisms, parodies and anecdotes about Hamlet".