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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: The Manga Edition
by
Adam Sexton (Goodreads Author),
William Shakespeare
Feuding families--the Montagues and Capulets. Star-crossed lovers--Romeo and Juliet. A street brawl and a masquerade ball. Comedy and tragedy. Murder and revenge. True romance. A secret marriage. A double suicide.
This manga edition features a four-page introduction that sets the stage and a text that's abridged, but retains Shakespeare's original language, setting, and tim
...morePaperback, 184 pages
Published
January 1st 2008
by John Wiley & Sons
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Michael Printz Award 2007
National Book Award
Agatha Award
Traditional lit in graphic format.
Frueding families the Montagues & Capulets. 2 star crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet. There is a street brawl and a masquerade ball. It is in 5 acts. The language is Shakespeare. " See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love." (pg.183) The manga is clean and the illustrations create nice movement through the story. I ...more
National Book Award
Agatha Award
Traditional lit in graphic format.
Frueding families the Montagues & Capulets. 2 star crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet. There is a street brawl and a masquerade ball. It is in 5 acts. The language is Shakespeare. " See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love." (pg.183) The manga is clean and the illustrations create nice movement through the story. I ...more
This manga edition provides lots of visuals to accompany the text and might be of value to someone reading Romeo for the first time. The text is very close to the original, so it's not a watered down or parallel edition to the text; therefore, younger readers might still have to struggle with the text, but the visuals should be helpful. I would have preferred color graphics, but that's just a personal choice, and I'm sure the price would have been far above the $10 I paid for this one. I'll keep...more
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This was a very beautiful from the beginning to the end. The illustrations were great, it had Shakespeare's written script (not all for the fact it was a 200 pages manga comic). But you don't like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by text alone, then I encourage you to read this manga. It is very visual.
There is an outside chance I will assign this books to students in the fall, so I resist commenting here.
a bit hard to distinguish the individual male characters as they looked too similar.
I didan't like this book becouse its not very good but the book have parts very good.
amazing <3 and sweet
I'm interested in possibly using this format to teach Shakespeare. It makes sense because Shakespeare's plays were intended to be seen, not read. The advantage of the graphic novel is that the words aren't fleeting as when one watches a play. One can see the action and also go back and reread the words in relation to the action. I'm getting a copy to examine.
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ADAM REID SEXTON is the author, editor, or adapter of more than ten published books. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, the Mississippi Review, the Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. He has been a Contributing Editor at the Philadelphia City Paper and an Assistant Editor on the News Desk at Time, and he has consulted f...more
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