Hamlet

The Dane as never seen before ? in a daring, dazzling, sexy prose retelling of Shakespeare?s tragedy by best-selling author John Marsden.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Hamlet can?t be sure what?s causing the stench. His rage at his mother?s infidelities ? together with his greed for the sensual Ophelia and his dead father?s call to revenge a "murder most foul" ? have his mind in chaos, and he wants to scatter his traitorous uncle?s insides across the fields. But was it really his father?s ghost that night on the ramparts, or a hell-fiend sent to trick him? "Action is hot," he tells Ophelia, who lives shut up in a tower with her longings and lust. "Action is courage, and reflection is cowardly. Picking up the knife has the colors of truth. As soon as I hesitate. . . ." In this dark, erotically charged, beautifully crafted novel, John Marsden brings one of Shakespeare?s most riveting characters to full-blooded life in a narrative of intense psychological complexity.