Oh, well, thanks. The goals were essentially as follows:
- Make the play more accessible to the reluctant reader/YA audience - Give it an edgy, graphic update (yes, you can get this from many stage productions) - Draw a book entirely from life (or almost entirely) - Condense a Shakespearian play more than I was comfortably able to do with Lear (therefore tackling the problem of rewriting some parts without losing all the important poetry in other parts) - Tell a compelling story without resorting to action, cartoonishness, some of the other conventional "strengths" of the medium. How do you feel about other talky books like Fun Home?
Obviously, your mileage may vary. But that's the answer to your question. And to your other question, the next book is The Odyssey. So yes, much more action!!
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Date: 2008-10-03 03:49 pm (UTC)- Make the play more accessible to the reluctant reader/YA audience
- Give it an edgy, graphic update (yes, you can get this from many stage productions)
- Draw a book entirely from life (or almost entirely)
- Condense a Shakespearian play more than I was comfortably able to do with Lear (therefore tackling the problem of rewriting some parts without losing all the important poetry in other parts)
- Tell a compelling story without resorting to action, cartoonishness, some of the other conventional "strengths" of the medium. How do you feel about other talky books like Fun Home?
Obviously, your mileage may vary. But that's the answer to your question. And to your other question, the next book is The Odyssey. So yes, much more action!!
-G