BARBRO LINDGREN , ANNA HÖGLUND, RACHEL WILLSON-BROYLES
A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeares Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish childrens author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund.
Look Hamlet.
Hamlet not happy.
Hamlets mommy dumb.
Hamlets daddy dead.
So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish childrens author Barbro Lindgrens 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.
