A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund. Look Hamlet. Hamlet not happy. Hamlet’s mommy dumb. Hamlet’s daddy dead. So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey. In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren’s pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity is the soul of wit.”

Passion, romance, drama, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this compulsively readable Hamlet retelling, from the perspective of a strong-willed, modern-day Ophelia. Meet Ophelia, high school senior, daughter of the Danish king's most trusted adviser, and longtime girlfriend of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. She lives a glamorous life and has a royal social circle, and her beautiful face is splashed across magazines and television screens. But it comes with a price--her life is ruled not only by Hamlet's fame and his overbearing royal family but also by the paparazzi who hound them wherever they go. After the sudden and suspicious death of his father, the king, the devastatingly handsome Hamlet spirals dangerously toward madness, and Ophelia finds herself torn, with no one to turn to. All Ophelia wants is to live a normal life. But when you date a prince, you have to play your part. Ophelia rides out this crazy roller coaster life, and lives to tell her story in live television interviews.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, shortened to Hamlet, is Shakespeare’s longest play, and is ranked amongst the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature. The Play Prince Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark from school in Germany to attend his father’s funeral. Upon reaching, he is shocked to find his mother Gertrude already remarried to Claudius—Hamlet’s uncle and the late King’s brother. The incident agitates Hamlet to the core, making him angry and depressed. To worsen his plight, his father appears as a ghost and reveals that he was murdered by Claudius, to seize the throne. The episodes prompt Hamlet to swear a revenge against his father’s murder and mother’s infidelity. The book comes along with • Fully annotated and complete text • Clear plot-summary in brief • Act-wise and scene-wise, to-the-point critical commentary • Student-friendly introduction to all important issues • Essay on Hamlet: Through the Critic’s Lens provides different perspectives of criticism on Hamlet, from the early days till date, and another one on Hamlet: The Themes in Question highlights the key questions pertinent to the play, and are still unanswered.

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Graphic novel adaptation of Prince Hamlet's struggle to deliver justice on his own terms.