back in high school I used these. They were great:
Seconded. Out of print, but you can probably find used copies on line. (Mine burned up; think I’ll try and replace it.)
"‘I don’t see why they give us this old-fashioned junk by Milton and Shakespeare and Wordsworth and all these has-beens,’ [Babbit’s son, Ted] protested. 'Oh, I guess I could stand it to see a show by Shakespeare, if they had swell scenery and put on a lot of dog, but to sit down in cold blood and read ‘em – These teachers – how do they get that way?’
“Mrs. Babbitt, darning socks, speculated, ‘Yes, I wonder why. Of course I don’t want to fly in the face of the professors and everybody, but I do think there’s things in Shakespeare – not that I read him much, but when I was young the girls used to show me passages that weren’t, really, they weren’t at all nice’.”
– Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
I think this is the best version of Hamlet ever filmed.