Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Amazing. My students are reading this right now and they love it - especially good for visual learners! Once we reviewed the characters - a lot in the first act and when new people are introduced - it really clicked for them. Will definitely buy more Manga and recommend to other teachers!

I showed my students the manga versions of Shakespeare's tragedies, and several of them borrowed these editions to read overnight. I plan to keep a deep inventory of these versions in my classroom's bookshelves so that my students might continue to become "hooked on Shakespeare."

This book is great to use in the classroom. Though you must know the book is terribly made. Within a few days of reading the book began to fall apart. This version is abridged, however, you do not lose any important parts. The language does remain in Elizabethan English, but the setting is in the future.

Exactly what I wanted and expected.

Love Manga style.

The sixth of the Manga Shakespeare is the darkest of them. The drawing and selection of lines goes for the war torn look. The constant circling gunships and look of Mad Max tell the story in Shakespeare's words and has some depth with the art work, but it is harsh. I found myself stumbling sometimes on the language due, to being distracted by the drawings, a bit disconcerting,but some art is that way. You may need to read it twice to understand more of the artwork. Not for the youngest manga fans

Exc.

I really enjoyed Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar adapted by Richard Appignanesi, and illustrated by Mustashrik Mahbab. Very manga, very strongly done (with very little alteration/addition to the text, but with a futuristic setting). Extra bonus points in my book for depicting Portia as pregnant (which I believe is supported both by the text and history).

Graphical representation of the Bard for the younger mind well exercuted

I've bought several of these Manga Shakespeare books for my children and cannot recommend them enough. Despite both my girls (aged 10 and 12) being avid readers, they weren't interested in trying the classics... didn't like anything they perceived as "historical" or "old fashioned". But these Manga books did the trick. The lengthy narrative of the originals is mainly gone, leaving short scene introductions and the dialogue between cartoon characters. Much of that dialogue, however, is as Shakespeare wrote it, yet set against very modern images - sounds like a mix that can't possibly work but it does. Wonderfully. My kids didn't appear to struggle with the language at all and very quickly grasped the core of the story, the characters involved etc. etc. After reading these I took them to see a (modern) adult production of Romeo & Juliet... they were enthralled, literally on the edge of their seats and never taking their eyes off the characters on stage. They followed the story in a way they'd never have been able to do had they not first been exposed to these Manga versions. Top marks. If only they were part of the national curriculum, there'd be a lot more kids engaging with Shakespeare and gaining from that exposure a sense of these important plots which crop up again and again in literature and films and which are, for those reasons if no other, a vital part of cultural learning.

A great way to read Shakespeare! Drawings were very good and creative. It kept me interested throughout the book.

Not colour - it's black and white almost completely (95%).