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Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's King Lear

Steve Barlow | Steve Skidmore | Juan Calle
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781445190266
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 250mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Nov 2025
  • Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Shakespeare's King Lear like you've never seen it - or read it - before! Classics in Graphics: King Lear has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Juan Calle. You'll be sure to get swept up in the wild family drama that swirls across each page - as Lear's daughters drive him towards madness ...

This series has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the doors of literature for all to enter and understand. With dyslexia-friendly design for readers aged 10+; inclusive art so anyone can relate to iconic roles; snappy simplified text; introductory material to set the scene; heaps of material at the back, looking at the play's themes, language, publication, performance in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and more!

Classics available: Macbeth, The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice

Praise for Classics in Graphics: "[...] an encouraging entry point to Shakespeare for my kids, and [...] an excellent job converting challenging language and literary themes to make it very inclusive, smoothing ease of understanding dialogue, plot, and narration without dumbing it down." - EricWilliamson, leagueofcomicgeeks.com
About Steve Barlow | Steve Skidmore | Juan Calle
As 50% of the 2Steves, Steve Barlow has written over 250 books with Steve Skidmore since they first appeared in 1988. Born in Crewe, he was educated at Crewe Grammar School, Warwick University and Nottingham University before a varied career in teaching, acting, stage management and puppetry. He worked in a village school in Botswana for four years before returning to the UK. The Two Steves have toured extensively in the UK and overseas, and to book festivals including Edinburgh and Hay. Steve Skidmore writes with Steve Barlow as Britain's most popular comedy writing and performing double act for young people - The 2 Steves! He was born in Birstall near Leicester. He went to Nottingham University to read English, but spent most of his time playing sport and doing a variety of jobs including counting pastry pie lids. He trained as a teacher of Drama, English and Film, before teaming up with Steve Barlow as a full-time author. He lives in Leicester and is a great rugby fan (Come on you Tiiigeeers!). Juan Calle is a former biologist turned science illustrator from Bogotá, Colombia, who trained on the Science Illustration programme at California State University, Monterey Bay, USA. He worked for field guides of plants and animals of his country of origin, Colombia, and now works in his own art studio, Liberum Donum, creating concept art, storyboarding and his passion, comic books.

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