Alas, Poor Yorick
It is twenty years before the events of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Yorick, the King's trusted jester and sometimes confidante, is caught in a web of treachery and murder as he struggles to be true to his King and to protect the infant Prince Hamlet. There is treason against the very dynasty of...
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It is twenty years before the events of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Yorick, the King's trusted jester and sometimes confidante, is caught in a web of treachery and murder as he struggles to be true to his King and to protect the infant Prince Hamlet. There is treason against the very dynasty of the King; and now someone is killing off, one by one, the jesters of Elsinor. Shakespeareans have argued for four hundred years about the backstory to Hamlet; now you can experience the events as told in Yorick's own words.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780967915937 (0967915937)
Publish date: October 5th 2002
Publisher: Hidden Knowledge
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
Really a 3.5. Sometimes books are a really a point something.Alas Poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio.So did Horatio.And finally, so does the reader.Yarbro's novel takes the reader to the court of King Hamlet Sr. In other words, to the whole start of the bloody mess that make up Shakespeare most famou...
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