Manga Shakespeare

[Mulboyne]

"Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's most famous love story, unfurls in a dramatic manga setting, in which Verona becomes a street in the highly fashionable Shibuya district of Tokyo. The star-crossed lovers, touching in their youth and innocence, are caught up in a bitter feud between two Yakuza families (Japan's 'mafia') whose rivalry erupts into violence and killing on the streets."

ICv2: Manga Shakespeare
UK independent publisher SelfMadeHero will launch its line of contemporary manga next month with manga adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, using the Bard's original language in abridged versions of his classic plays. Amulet Books, an imprint of art book publisher Harry N. Abrams, will publish the Manga Shakespeare titles in the U.S. in April...more...

Click the links above for more on each title. US publisher John Wiley already announced last year their own manga Shakespeare series with a different line-up of artists and a 2008 publication date. The concepts are different but I can't imagine that they will be pleased at an upstart British publisher stealing their thunder.

[Kanchou]

An anime (although apparently unrelated) adaptation is already in the works.

Personally I hate Romeo and Juliet because of the utterly ridiculous ending (not because they both kill themselves, because of the circumstances that caused them to do it). And thus I hate adaptations because they typically end the same way (or get mocked because they don't end that way).

If you're gonna make Shakespeare into manga, it should be something entertaining like Twelfth Night.

[American Oyaji]

If you're gonna make Shakespeare into manga, it should be something entertaining like Twelfth Night.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would make a HILARIOUS anime.

[Charles]

It's already been done.

[dimwit]

Hell, I'm waiting for Henry James and William Faulkner to be done as manga so I can still feel cultured without haven't to be bother reading anything.