In a way, the dialogue becomes the background for many scenes.Īnd then there is Hamlet. When Hamlet is off and running on one of his famous soliloquies, you can clearly see in the scene what he is illustrating with his words. As Shakespeare was fond of wordplay and vivid imagery in his writing, so the artist makes great strides to incorporate these things into each and every panel.
The art is deeply intertwined with the story, even more so that a typical graphic novel. It is not "dumbing down" in the least bit all the humor and heartache from the original is still there in the dialogue and the story does not suffer at all from this treatment. Even as the language is simplified for a modern and young audience, a good deal of the most memorable lines are kept intact as they are timeless enough that anyone could understand them. This GN version of Hamlet is startling close in spirit to the original play. (No Fear Shakespeare is a whole line of like-minded GNs created by Sparknotes, which is a company well acquainted with the minds of lazy and unwilling students.) So, how well did Neil Babra actually do? I mean, he did not have an easy task: to take a work of the Bard and turn it into a graphic novel that is both true to the original source and still entertain reluctant readers. Also, Ophelia, who is by far the craziest of them all (no one out-crazies Ophelia!). Hamlet vows to have his revenge, and goes freaking nuts in the process. The king's ghost tells Hamlet that his killer is his brother, now the current king and new husband of Hamlet's mum. There are probably few readers of this blog who are not at least halfway familiar with the story of Hamlet, but for those whose memory may be a bit murky, here's a recap: Hamlet's father, the king is dead.
Review originally posted at Dangerously Cold Tea
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