Shakespeare in Comics - Gianni de Luca

Shakespeare in Comics by Gianni de Luca / an English-language edition from Passenger Press in Italy, large 160 page paperback, 10.25 x 14.4 inches. *** For the first time in the 50 years since since their original creation, SHAKESPEARE IN COMICS by Gianni De Luca collects into this amazing English edition his so-called “Shakespeare Trilogy”, the graphic novel adaptations of three of Shakespeare’s plays – The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet – that were published in the catholic magazine Il Giornalino in 1975 and 1976. To draw the “trilogy” De Luca resorted to a simple yet revolutionary storytelling in which the customary fragmentation of the page in panels and tiers progressively disappeared. The last of the three adaptations, Romeo and Juliet, is entirely composed of double splash pages, large panels which occupy both of the pages in front of the reader, like the view of a theatrical stage. On this wide horizontal page the characters are drawn several times, in a series of poses mean