Hamlet

A Novel Based on Shakespeare's Play

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Two months after the king's sudden death, his widow has married his brother. The court celebrates while the dead king's son—Prince Hamlet—drowns in grief and suspicion. Then guards report an impossible sighting: the dead king's ghost, walking the battlements in full armor.

When Hamlet confronts the apparition, he learns a terrible truth: his father was murdered. Poisoned by his own brother. And the ghost demands revenge.

But how do you kill a king? How do you trust a ghost? How do you act when your mother has betrayed your father's memory, your friends have become spies, and your own mind begins to fracture under the weight of what you know?

Shakespeare's Hamlet is the most famous play in the English language—a masterpiece of psychological depth and human complexity. Now, in this faithful prose adaptation, the story is reborn for contemporary readers. Every scene, every character, every turn of plot is preserved, but the Elizabethan verse is transformed into vivid, immediate narrative.

This is Hamlet as thriller. As family tragedy. As psychological horror. As the story of a brilliant young man trapped between thought and action, drowning in a corrupt court where no one can be trusted.

The rest is not silence. The rest is story.

Perfect for readers encountering Shakespeare's greatest tragedy for the first time, or rediscovering it without the barrier of four-hundred-year-old language.