The Hamlet Fire

The Hamlet Fire
Author: Bryant Simon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469661373

For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.

What Happens in Hamlet

What Happens in Hamlet
Author: John Dover Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1959
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521091091

In this classic 1935 book, John Dover Wilson critiques Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Hamlet

Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781638435020

Stick Figure Hamlet

Stick Figure Hamlet
Author: Dan Carroll
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: Hamlet (Legendary character)
ISBN: 9781448688784

Graphic novel adaptation of Prince Hamlet's struggle to deliver justice on his own terms.

Berlin-Hamlet

Berlin-Hamlet
Author: Szilárd Borbély
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1681370557

Shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry Before his tragic death, Szilárd Borbély had gained a name as one of Europe's most searching new poets. Berlin-Hamlet—one of his major works—evokes a stroll through the phantasmagoric shopping arcades described in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, but instead of the delirious image fragments of nineteenth-century European culture, we pass by disembodied scraps of written text, remnants as ghostly as their authors: primarily Franz Kafka but also Benjamin himself or the Hungarian poets Attila József or Erno Szép. Paraphrases and reworked quotations, drawing upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German reunification.

Falling for Hamlet

Falling for Hamlet
Author: Michelle Ray
Publisher: Poppy
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316134422

Passion, romance, drama, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this compulsively readable Hamlet retelling, from the perspective of a strong-willed, modern-day Ophelia. Meet Ophelia, high school senior, daughter of the Danish king's most trusted adviser, and longtime girlfriend of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. She lives a glamorous life and has a royal social circle, and her beautiful face is splashed across magazines and television screens. But it comes with a price--her life is ruled not only by Hamlet's fame and his overbearing royal family but also by the paparazzi who hound them wherever they go. After the sudden and suspicious death of his father, the king, the devastatingly handsome Hamlet spirals dangerously toward madness, and Ophelia finds herself torn, with no one to turn to. All Ophelia wants is to live a normal life. But when you date a prince, you have to play your part. Ophelia rides out this crazy roller coaster life, and lives to tell her story in live television interviews.

Hamlet

Hamlet
Author: Louie Stowell
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409584119

When a ghostly figure appears to Prince Hamlet, he discovers the dreadful truth about his father's death. His quest for revenge leads him into a world of mayhem, madness and murder. An exciting retelling of Shakespeare's classic play, specially written for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Includes links to recommended websites for children to find out more about Shakespeare and the play. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare

Srsly Hamlet

Srsly Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2015
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0553535382

"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--

Othello

Othello
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN:

Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes -- racism, love, jealousy and betrayal -- it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations. (From Wikipedia)(less)