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Midsummer Nights Dream Made Easy (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Midsummer Nights Dream Made Easy (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Of late many classic titles - including the Bible - have been
turned into manga, in a 21st-century version of the venerable
Classics Illustrated comics. This take on the Bard boils his play
down to approximately 20 words per page, drastically abridging the
text, though keeping intact the original language and meter. A
fully colored dramatis personae reduces the characters to sound
bites and shines in comparison to the flat, gray-toned images that
murkily tell the story itself. As drawn by Brown, the characters
are decidedly more Western-looking in their styling than is typical
to most manga, and the adaptor's choice of setting is an
anachronistic mishmash of quasi-antique and modern, a choice that
will leave sophisticated readers knowledgeable with the text
slightly puzzled. The Tempest (ISBN: 978-0-8109-9476-8), drawn by
Paul Duffield, follows an identical template. These attempts to
convert Shakespeare into visual language fall flat, although the
slick manga styling alone may attract some new readers to these
works. (plot summary, author's biography) (Graphic fiction. 13
& up) (Kirkus Reviews)
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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