{"id":368,"date":"2022-01-03T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2022-01-09T01:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T01:08:40","slug":"macbeth-by-stacy-king-goodreads-author-adaptor-crystal-s-chan-contributor-julien-choy-illustrator-wing-yin-leung-lettering-w-t-francis-lettering-william-shakespeare-original-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Macbeth by Stacy King (Goodreads Author) (Adaptor), Crystal S. Chan (Contributor), Julien Choy (Illustrator), Wing-Yin Leung (Lettering), W.T. Francis (Lettering), William Shakespeare (Original Author)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you to NetGalley and Udon Entertainment for a copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second Shakespeare adaptation I have read in manga form &#8211; my last read of 2021 was R&amp;J in manga form, so it seems fitting my first read of 2022 is the Scottish Play in manga form &#8211; and I am glad I had the chance to read it. I do enjoy reading the Bard&#8217;s work, but I forgot that I&nbsp;<em>struggle<\/em>&nbsp;to read his tragedies &#8211; save for Romeo and Juliet because that is just teenagers being dumb. Having this story in manga form definitely helps with understanding a lot of the context, but unfortunately a lot of the characters started to blend together in the way they looked so it was getting difficult to keep track of who was who. Overall, I enjoyed reading this adaptation, and I think if you: A) want to challenge yourself to read the Scottish Play\/any of Shakespeare&#8217;s tragedies&#8217;; B) you&nbsp;<strong>really<\/strong>&nbsp;love this show in particular; C) you like reading manga; D) need to get a better grasp of Macbeth for school; or E) any\/all of the above or something completely different I forgot, you should check this out. 3.5\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to NetGalley and Udon Entertainment for a copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own. This is the second Shakespeare adaptation I have read in manga form &#8211; my last read of 2021 was R&amp;J in manga form, so it seems fitting my first read of 2022 is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[71,145,143,64,146,147,148],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}