Number two in my reading-Hamlet-adaptations is Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower, a stand-alone and her first fantasy (as opposed to sci-fi) book (from 2019). She’s a Hugo-Nebula-Arthur C. Clarke-BSFA award winner. The Raven Tower is not one I hear mentioned frequently (or ever), and as I said, I started reading it because it was listed…
Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is also a CYOA (choose your own adventure) book, but not the trademarked version of that. North’s publishers call it a “Chooseable-Path Adventure.” It is not North’s first Chooseable-Path Adventure adaptation. It is my second read of a Hamlet…
“Hamlet,” or “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” William Shakespeare, app. 1600. Read, not the version shown here, but from my leather-bound William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, published by Gramercy Books in 1975. Bonus reviews of four Hamlet movies and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. William Shakespeare (assuming that was his name…
the starving artist 