While strolling through YouTube I came across the Crash Source Literature section. It starts with How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1. At the end, they invite you to join them starting with Romeo & Juliet. I don’t have a copy, at least one I could find. So it is off to the library. And I reserved a copy.
Romeo & Juliet, Library Copy
Notice anything? Anything that would set this apart from what you’d get in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare like you might have had in college? Cute cover, isn’t it? Because it is Manga. Like Japanese comic books. So read it backward, with the page orientatin being somewhat disorienting and you’ll have it. A little tough to follow the iambic pentameter, but there’s lots of great visuals.
And then I wondered what was amiss with me. I have a Kindle. Shakespeare is public domain. I could read a copy there for free. And off to it I went. And yes, they have a copy. And also copies in Spanish, French, Polish, German, and more. It’s a handsome copy. And in English, they also have it in HTML for easy web reading.
Front Piece for Gutenberg version.
And,, of course, I can get plain text copies, PDF copies, and more. Why did I go to the library? Because it’s nice, I guess. But I just did it out of laziness. Or a habit. Just like going to Gutenberg for a free electronic copy of a book. For that matter, Amazon offers 100,000 free books. Including a copy of Romeo & Juliet
