Popular Illustrated Classics is a series of masterpieces from world literature. It includes the works of English authors such as William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens as well as authors such as Cheklov and Maupassant in translation. Realising the importance of the line drawings in enhancing the intimacy of the reading experience, it has been conceived as an illustrated series. For the first t…
Maurice Evans writes in his “Comments on Playing the Role of Hamlet: it is ironic that Shakespeare's solicitude for his actor companions should have been repaid by actors of succeeding generations in such doubtful coin. I have been unable to trace the origin of the appellation of “The Gloomy Dane” as descriptive of Hamlet, but it is safe to surmise that some actor of mournful aspect was r…