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# Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

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Review: A Friendly Guide to Understanding Hamlet for Young Readers - Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare is an excellent companion for students and young readers exploring one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Designed to make the language of the Bard more approachable, this edition presents the original text alongside a clear, modern translation making it easier to follow the story and grasp the meaning behind the words. The side-by-side format allows readers to build confidence as they move between Shakespeare’s poetic language and the plain English interpretation. Complex themes like family, revenge, and identity become more accessible, while still preserving the drama and intensity that make Hamlet such a powerful play. Ideal for classroom use or independent reading, this edition is a valuable tool for kids who are new to Shakespeare. It encourages curiosity, improves comprehension, and helps young readers discover that classic literature can be both understandable and enjoyable.
Review: Great for students - I teach HS English and would recommend this book. It has the original version (which I teach from) and the plain English version for kids so they can understand the sldense verbage Shakespeare uses. We get both the famous quotes and passages and then the kids can have it "translated" for their understanding.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #34,953 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #29 in British & Irish Poetry #1,271 in Classic Literature & Fiction #2,706 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,364) |
| Dimensions  | 7.52 x 0.71 x 5.31 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1586638440 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1586638443 |
| Item Weight  | 12.5 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | April 15, 2003 |
| Publisher  | SparkNotes |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Friendly Guide to Understanding Hamlet for Young Readers
*by S***R on October 13, 2025*

Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare is an excellent companion for students and young readers exploring one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Designed to make the language of the Bard more approachable, this edition presents the original text alongside a clear, modern translation making it easier to follow the story and grasp the meaning behind the words. The side-by-side format allows readers to build confidence as they move between Shakespeare’s poetic language and the plain English interpretation. Complex themes like family, revenge, and identity become more accessible, while still preserving the drama and intensity that make Hamlet such a powerful play. Ideal for classroom use or independent reading, this edition is a valuable tool for kids who are new to Shakespeare. It encourages curiosity, improves comprehension, and helps young readers discover that classic literature can be both understandable and enjoyable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for students
*by K***Y on March 10, 2024*

I teach HS English and would recommend this book. It has the original version (which I teach from) and the plain English version for kids so they can understand the sldense verbage Shakespeare uses. We get both the famous quotes and passages and then the kids can have it "translated" for their understanding.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Middle aged and finally able to read Shakespeare
*by B***O on August 1, 2010*

I cannot more highly recommend this particular book, No Fear Shakespeare's Hamlet. I am approaching 50 years old and my only real experience trying to read Shakespeare was in high school where we were assigned roles in class and made to read, without comprehension, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Cesar. In the interim, I tried watching a few plays and dragged my kids to see the play Taming of the Shrew, which they hated because they couldn't understand the language nor the plot. Rather than becoming a Shakespeare hater, I've always felt inadequate and dumb for this huge hole in my education. My current inspiration to try Shakespeare again was my desire to try and help my high school aged son become more educated and cultured than I have been. I tried first with the Folger annotated editions of Shakespeare. They look excellent and define the unfamiliar words, but I still could not make sense of a substantial portion of the dialogue. I guess maybe I'm just dumb, I don't know. Anyway, I saw good reviews about this No Fear series, and I ordered several. So far I have read the modern English translations of Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest. While I feel a bit like I'm 'cheating', I actually have really enjoyed all the plays and at least now I know the plots and the characters and even some of the more subtle themes. I can't answer the complaints that the translations don't adequately translate Shakespeare's meanings. There are a few side notes that point out double meanings and things like that, though there are not extensive footnotes or sidenotes. To answer those who rate these books one or two stars, my answer is that they are at least a door into the world of Shakespeare for those of us unable to navigate the originals on our own. And they only take a couple of hours to read. It's not like this is a lifetime commitment or anything. The book only costs five bucks, so why not invest a couple of hours and read it? And, for me, I liked the plays so much that I AM now going to dig out the Folger editions and read the originals, with the No Fear books available in case I get in trouble. These modalities of trying to appreciate Shakespeare are not mutually exclusive. Well, hopefully that's helpful to someone. I wanted to write this so that people would know that these books are not just for lazy students hoping to avoid reading the originals or somehow 'cheat' in their English classes. I'm not a Shakespeare scholar or teacher and never will be, just an ordinary guy, but for me, these books were the window of opportunity that I had been searching for. Two thumbs up, most definitely.

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