Presents a retelling of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. This title offers a fast-paced graphic novel which remains faithful to William Shakespeare's original text. It includes a straightforward narrative in modern English that accompanies key excerpts from Shakespeare's original dialogue, and explains difficult words and phrases as they occur.
This book features in the following series: Colour Graffix, Graffex, Graffex Series .
There are 48 pages in this book. This is a comic strip book. This book was published 2009 by Salariya Book Company Ltd .
Kathy Elgin works in the education/publications deaprtment of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is the series consultant. Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.
This book contains the following story:
Hamlet
One dark night, Hamlet, prince of Denmark, sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost, or did he just imagine it? And if he did see a ghost, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to avenge his father by killing Claudius. But the man he stabs isn't Claudius, as he thinks, but his girlfriend's father. So the wrong man dies. So much tragedy, but there is more to come as Hamlet's apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.
