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To be or not to be : a chooseable-path adventure Cover Image Book

To be or not to be : a chooseable-path adventure / by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU.

North, Ryan, 1980- (author.). Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Adaptation of (work) Hamlet. (Added Author). Marlowe, Christina. Container of (work): Murder of Gonzago. (Added Author). Breadpig, Inc., (publisher.). RR Donnelly & Sons Company, (printer.).

Summary:

The greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! William Shakespeare's Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. Now it's up to you to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father's death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page!

Record details

  • ISBN: 0735212198
  • ISBN: 9780735212190
  • Physical Description: 548 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Riverhead edition
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Various artists; individual credits, pages 729-739
Includes The murder of Gonzago by Christina Marlowe
A choose-your-own-adventure story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, which allows the reader to play/read as Ophelia, Hamlet, or Hamlet Sr. The book, the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012, features illustrations from seventy artists and cartoonists
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 unported license
Formatted Contents Note:
To be or not to be -- Murder of Gonzago / by Christina Marlowe

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Subject:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet > Adaptations.
Hamlet (Legendary character) > Fiction.
Ophelia (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Gertrude, Queen of Denmark (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Laertes (Fictitious character : Shakespeare) > Fiction.
Polonius (Fictitious character : Shakespeare) > Fiction.
Genre:
Choose-your-own stories.
Humorous fiction.
Adaptations.

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