Manga Shakespeare: Hamlet

Some more digital art...

I'm trying to get used to drawing on a tablet, so I've been drawing character's from one of my favorite manga novels: 

Emma Vieceli's Manga Shakespeare: Hamlet!!!

I love her style. It's clean, simple, and beautiful to look at. Plus, Vieceli was creative: she set the manga in a future setting. Makes the book even more interesting. ;)

The story/dialogue follows very close to Shakespeare's actual play (which I've read for fun to see how close it really was). As you can probably gather from the drawings, Hamlet, is a Tragedy. I would definitely recommend both the manga novel and the play for good literature.

It doesn't get better than the classics!

...Hamlet...

My Favorite Hamlet quotes:

Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question..."

"Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?

Polonius: Very like a whale.” 

"Polonius [to Laertes]: Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; 
    Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 
    Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
    But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 
    For the apparel oft proclaims the man, 
    And they in France of the best rank and station 
    Are of a most select and generous chief in that. 
    Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 
    For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
    And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
    This above all: to thine ownself be true, 
    And it must follow, as the night the day, 
    Thou canst not then be false to any man."

“Hamlet [to Ophelia]: Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

...Ophelia...

Emma Vieceli's manga