Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is faced by a ghost bearing a grim message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation he finds himself in and to do his duty.

Title on container: A fully-dramatized recording of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Unabridged. "A companion to The complete Pelican Shakespeare"--Container.