'Hamlet': A Study Commentary (Student Edition)

This 288-page Commentary supports teachers and students working towards AP and IB and examinations. It is a line-by-line analysis of the play at a level, and in a manner, that all senior students will find accessible and engaging. It asks, of each scene, ‘What’s really happening here?’ and offers detailed answers – but challenges students, by means of brief but penetrating writing tasks, to find answers of their own.

It also provides a bank of essay questions in the style of both AP and IB.

The resource effectively promotes the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

From an official AP Central Teachers’ Resources Review: “The guide’s inquisitive spirit and sharp, intelligent attention to the play’s language and to theatrical features and ‘mechanics’ – pacing, silences, and staging possibilities – set this guide way above the ordinary.”

It is available in both a Teaching Copy (this one) and a Student Edition (with a separate Answers section at the end).

It has also has been provided in both .pdf and Word format to provide maximum flexibility.

A Library Edition (paperback) has recently been published under the title ‘Study Guide: A Hamlet Commentary: Teaching Copy’ and with the ISBN 979-8606091416 (enter in any Amazon Search box).