Read and/or Watch

We'll use MyShakespeare's version as our main text. (You might consider a free account because it lets you highlight, take notes & *creates a notebook for you*. Yeah, your nerdy English teacher thinks this is amazing.) At the top of each scene is a scene summary. As you read, ff you click on the icon that looks like someone talking, you'll see a modern-day "translation". The speaker-looking icon lets you listen to the play, and on the right-hand side, you'll see an icon with an inkwell & feather: there you learn about wordplay and language. The videos are also useful.

And, of course, there are others:

• Confused by the language? Use No Fear Shakespeare's version to figure out what's happening. (But then go back to the original text. It's much richer.)

• MIT has a version. It's thorough, but there are no annotations.

• If your internet plagues you (as mine does from time to time) the Folger Shakespeare Library offers a pdf that you can annotate.

• Project Gutenberg (60,000 free ebooks, mostly published before 1924) offers the text with annotated vocabulary (though personally I find the interface annoying).

Study Hamlet, one Act at a time

Hamlet, Act by Act