Bibliograph

Hamlet, [Richard Appignanesi, text adaptor] ; illustrated by Emma Vieceli

Type

Label

Hamlet, [Richard Appignanesi, text adaptor] ; illustrated by Emma Vieceli

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

comic strips

Main title

Hamlet

Oclc number

78774136

Responsibility statement

[Richard Appignanesi, text adaptor] ; illustrated by Emma Vieceli

Series statement

Manga Shakespeare

Summary

Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge was first enacted in London in 1602. Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who is in mourning for his dead father, is visited by his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother, Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet feigns madness and plots to kill ClaudiusWhen he accidentally stabs Polonius, Claudius's counselor, Hamlet is sent into exile--and Polonius's daughter, Ophelia, who had been in love with Hamlet, goes mad from grief and drowns herself. In the climax of the play, old scores are settled at last, and Hamlet speaks his famous last words: "The rest is silence."

Target audience

juvenile

Classification