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2016-05-12 19:18:45 Post No. 8029322
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2016-05-12 19:18:45
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Have you guys ever read the Shakespeare biographical adaptations in the Sandman series? I think they are some of the warmest, most tender and humane fictional portraits of the poet. My favorite is Nothing Like the Sun, by Anthony Burgess, but this one is also great, and I would like to share it with you. It starts here, whit a conversation between Will and Kit Marlowe (this chapter has only a few pages devoted to Shakespeare – pic related is one of them):
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/013/10/
Then we eventually see Shakespeare and his crew in the beginning of the top stage of his carrear, with A Midsummer Night Dream:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/019/
We eventually reach the end of Shakespeare’s career (and of the Sandman’s series) with the days of old Shakespeare living in Stratford and working in The Tempest:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/075/
This last chapter is extremely moving, and it shows a William Shakespeare who has grown old and wise, but with that kind of understanding of humanity and the world that makes one melancholic and silent, rather than joyful. We see a man who treats everybody well, who lets his wife criticize and treat him like a kid, who don’t respond to the offenses of the towns people, who watch his daughter make the mistakes of thousands of young people but who knows that this is the way the world works…it is very touching. It is almost as if Shakespeare was some older incarnation of Leopold Bloom.
