A Radical Restoration of ‘Hamlet’

Shakespearean expert Gideon Rappaport’s new edition of ‘Hamlet’ gives guidance on the misunderstood play.

"Hamlet," as edited and annotated by Gideon Rappaport.

Gideon Rappaport is on a mission to save a 400 year-old masterpiece. 

Why release yet another annotated edition of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” as Shakespeare expert Mr. Rappaport did last month? The answer, as he explains in the preface of “William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ Edited and Annotated by Gideon Rappaport” is that “too many interpreters in modern times have missed the mark by substituting their own ideas for the meaning that Shakespeare has actually given us.”