manga

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet are being rendered in manga and will be released next month by John Wiley and Sons. The bard’s greatest hits will "combine the stunning effects of manga while remaining true to the original context," says project developer Adam Sexton.

I’m not a huge manga fan myself, but for those Wordsy people who are, here’s a list of ten of the best manga works of 2007. I’m sure there are some titles fans could add to this list.

At first I thought this a strange idea, but if manga has teens reading old Bill, then manga it is. Long live the Bard, in whatever form.