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To be or not to be : a chooseable-path adventure /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2016Copyright date: 2013Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback editionDescription: 548 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735212190
  • 0735212198
Contained works:
  • Marlowe, Christina. Murder of Gonzago
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9199.4.N67 T6 2013
Contents:
To be or not to be -- The murder of Gonzago / by Christina Marlowe.
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!
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything , the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure!

When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from a constellation of billions of alternate narratives. And now you can correct that horrible mistake! Play as Hamlet and avenge your father's death--with ruthless efficiency this time. Play as Ophelia and change the world with your scientific brilliance. Play as Hamlet's father and die on the first page, then investigate your own murder... as a ghost ! Featuring over 100 different endings, each illustrated by today's greatest artists, incredible side quests, fun puzzles, and a book-within-a-book instead of a play-within-a-play, To Be or Not To Be offers up new surprises and secrets every time you read it.

You decide this all sounds extremely excellent, and that you will definitely purchase this book right away. Because as the Bard said: "to be or not to be... that is the adventure ."

...You're almost certain that's how it goes.

To Be or Not To Be originally launched as a record-breaking Kickstarter project. This new, reader-friendly edition features the same text and illustrations as the original version, redesigned to take up half as many pages and weigh a whole pound less.

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.

To be or not to be -- The murder of Gonzago / by Christina Marlowe.

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!

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ryan North is a New York Times -bestselling author and cartoonist. His other chooseable-path Shakespeare book is called Romeo and/or Juliet , and you should check that one out too. North is known for his online strip Dinosaur Comics , his critically acclaimed work on Marvel's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, as well as his Eisner-award winning writing for the Adventure Time comic. He lives in Toronto with his wife Jenn and their dog Noam Chompsky, who is a good boy. Yes he is.

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