Manga Classics: Romeo and Juliet
Every line of the play, drawn as manga.
Faces and pacing can do the work footnotes usually do, so keep every word and let the art explain it.
You follow faces faster than footnotes, and you still want every word of the play.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the text. This is the Full Original Text Edition: Shakespeare’s lines, all of them.
Changes: how you understand them. Julien Choy’s art carries the tone and the subtext; Crystal S. Chan adapted the play to the page.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, with the art giving the faces in the background a stake in it too.
How much time does it ask?
400 pages in paperback.
Manga Classics Inc., distributed by Simon & Schuster: “Full Original Text Edition,” adapted by Crystal S. Chan, illustrated by Julien Choy.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Verona: The Folger Shakespeare Library edition · No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet · The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, ed. René Weis