LOOK HAMLET

u003cbu003eA hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s u003c/bu003eu003ciu003eu003cbu003eHamletu003c/bu003eu003c/iu003eu003cbu003e in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eLook Hamlet.u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eHamlet not happy. u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eHamlet’s mommy dumb. u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eHamlet’s daddy dead.u003c/iu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eSo begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare’s 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren’s pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eBold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, u003ciu003eLook Hamletu003c/iu003e is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity is the soul of wit.”