Shakespeare Comic Books

Edited versions of Shakespeare plays with modern English translation in comic book format

Thursday, 31 March 2016

Food for thought: Shakespeare on eating and agriculture

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For somebody we don’t know very much about, we know an awful lot about Shakespeare. Unfortunately, much of what we don’t know is the b...
Friday, 11 September 2015

Educating Shakespeare: schools, creativity and genius

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We know almost nothing about Shakespeare’s life. At least, considering he is the greatest writer that ever lived, we know frustratingl...
Sunday, 14 June 2015

Is ripeness all? Lear, Dementia and Zipper the Cat

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Zipper the cat is twenty three years old. In human terms, she’s over 110 and like all elderly creatures spends most of her time dozin...
Thursday, 23 April 2015

Disordered states: Hamlet, Durkheim and Don Quixote

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I attended only one lecture while at university. This was in my first week at York and given by Professor Philip Brockbank, founder of...
Monday, 2 March 2015

Shakespeareworms - or the bits of the bard that stick in the brain

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Fragments of Shakespeare are to be found in forgotten corners of almost everybody’s brains. Even people who don’t like Shakespeare or think...
Friday, 9 January 2015

Shakespeare, Byron and the rise of the literary superstar

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If people know anything about George Gordon, Lord Byron, it is likely to be that he had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister...
Thursday, 4 December 2014

Glendower or Glyndwr? Shakespeare and the last Welsh Prince of Wales

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Borders separate them from us. They are frequently places of blood.  Ancient animosities linger. Offa’s Dyke runs through Bronygarth, ...
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The Shakespeare Comic Book Series was created in response to a simple question: How can we present serious literature to a generation of school students that is intensely visually aware but often reluctant to read? The answer was to offer the work of the world’s greatest ever writer in a popular format with a highly pictorial content. The Shakespeare Comic Book Series thus began life in 1999, created by Simon Greaves.
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