Hamlet: The Shakesperience

A Hands-on Experience with Shakespeare

Experience Hamlet in an unexpected and exciting new way with The Shakesperience, which combines an engagingly touchable interface + remarkable audio + photos and illustrations to create an interactive Shakespeare experience unlike any you've ever seen.

Get Into Reading Hamlet Faster

Our at-your-fingertip features allow you to more quickly immerse in and engage with the text.

At Your Fingertips

•Complete glossary with embedded explanations (more than 1,300 terms!) allows you to immediately translate words you don't know into contemporary English

•The result? Reading Shakespeare is easier and you'll "get" the play much faster. Simply put, we'll change the way you read Shakespeare.

Performance Audio

First in a line of groundbreaking ebooks, Hamlet: The Shakesperience takes you from the page to the stage with audio embedded right in the scenes.

Shakespeare's plays come alive in performance, and you'll hear some of the world's best, including:

•Sir Laurence Olivier's breathtaking 1948 performance as Hamlet

•An historic performance by Sir John Gielgud


•Sir Derek Jacobi acts as your narrator and explains the differences between each performance – you'll experience scenes changing based on how they're performed!

And much, much more

Visuals

Our visuals come directly from some of the best performances with galleries that burst off the page with photos, production notes, set renderings, and costume designs.

The BEST of the iPad

The Shakesperience makes magic happen with all the best features of your iPad, including:

•Touch, tap, and swipe your way through the play

•Feature-packed but in a compact file size and no wifi needed!

•Full highlighting and note-taking abilities

•Fully reflowable and resizeable text in portrait or landscape views that allow you to read the way you want to

•Photo galleries that can be swiped and enlarged bring the play to life

Developed with leading Shakespearean scholars and ideal for students, Hamlet: The Shakesperience's dynamic special features enhance the experience and make it the most friendly and fascinating Shakespeare you can imagine:

•How does an actor "Speak Shakespeare"? Former voice coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company Andrew Wade shows you

•A full cast of actors explains how they approached their roles

•Hamlet as performed - the view from the director's chair of Kenneth Branagh

•Hamlet in pop culture, including the most famous soliloquy in history — "To be or not to be."