This manga recreation of Shakespeare''s tricksiest comedy plays out its serial deceptions and counterfeits against the operatic backdrop of a later Italian landscape. But don''t believe everything you hear...

A graphic novel adaptation of this Shakespeare play. The series keeps true to Shakespeare's original text, but is specially abridged for use in manga by an expert editorial team.

The story of Lear, the old chieftain, who divides his kingdom among his three daughters is the most terrifying tragedy ever written. Shakespeare''s apocalyptic play is vividly transferred to the colonial frontiers of 18th-century America, where it is the last of the Mohicans who is bound upon a wheel of fire...