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King Lear | 
| Creator: Gareth Hinds
Publisher: TheComic.com
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 254499
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 7.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1893131068
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33
EAN: 9781893131064
ASIN: 1893131068
Publication Date: September 21, 2007
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When an old king tries to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, he unleashes a power struggle that will tear his family and the kingdom apart. With a raging storm as a backdrop, Shakespeare explores themes of truth, loyalty, anger, madness, ambition, justice, and rebellion in this, one of his greatest tragedies. In his elegant, faithful adaptation, Gareth Hinds delivers a graphic novel that will make Lear's story speak to Shakespeare readers both old and new.
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A beautifully rendered work February 6, 2008
Tovar Cerulli
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ask any high school English student: Reading the Bard's work aloud in a classroom doesn't necessarily inspire. Shakespeare's masterpieces are plays. As such, they were meant to be performed. Actors bring us the movement, rhythm, and passion of Shakespeare's work in a way that the printed word cannot.
Fortunately, Hinds's impressive artistic talents have now brought that life to the page. One page gives us the quiet stillness of a castle at night. Another brings us the ornamented swirl of courtiers. Yet another flares with action and swordplay.
With sensitivity, fidelity to the original script, and refreshing visual variety, this rendering of King Lear treats us both to the rhythms of a live performance and to changes of scene and landscape that are simply impossible on the stage. It is, in short, a masterpiece in its own right.
A tale well-told January 22, 2008
Matthew Mackenzie
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're like me, you never get as much out of reading a play as from witnessing it performed. The actors and director have studied the work and found its nuances, and their staging and delivery make a huge difference. When it's Shakespeare I also sometimes stop and puzzle over the language, which at least throws off the pacing and sometimes just leaves me feeling like I've missed something.
Experiencing that language through this graphic novel is more like seeing it performed than like reading it; only with castles and thunder storms and horses and battles, rather than just resourceful suggestions of the same. And, you can experience it again any time you want, and compare scenes and characters to arrive at a richer understanding. The art is vivid, expressive, varied, richly colored--and above all, expertly crafted to serve the Bard's story.
Wonderful book January 21, 2008
Daniel G. Thron (Los Angles, CA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Gareth Hinds' King Lear is one of the most elegant yet accessible Shakespearian adaptations I've ever seen. Most efforts in the vein of Shakespear-for-comics make one of two bad choices: either they 'dumb it down' for what they think a comics audience can understand, or the text is so removed from the imagery that though the art may be well-rendered, they are really only illustrated manuscripts, not comics. Hinds makes neither of these mistakes; rather he uses the visual forms and tricks of comics to clarify the language without changing the text. In fact the text and the images are so flawlessly interwoven that the experience is closer to watching a great performance of the play than anything else. He balances the visuals in the same fashion the play balances the beauty of the poetry versus the bitterness and world-weariness of the sentiment -- the design and framing of the scenes is lavish yet strangely intimate, and he keeps his line light and colors airy, which only adds a deeper, ironic melancholy to the final sequences. Fantastic work; one of my favorite plays is now one of my favorite comics.
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