To Be or Not to Be (book)

To Be or Not To Be

Author	Ryan North
Illustrator	various
Cover artist	Ray Fawkes, ND Stevenson
Language	English
Subject	Characters Hamlet, Ophelia, King Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius, Laertes, Horatio
Genre	Comedy
Publisher	Breadpig
Publication date	2013
Pages	740
ISBN	978-0-9828537-4-0
Followed by	Romeo and/or Juliet[1]

To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure, also referred to as To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure, is a 2013 novel by Ryan North, retelling the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a choose your own adventure format and mostly contemporary language. The initial run of the book was crowd funded through Kickstarter and published by charitable "uncorporation" Breadpig. It was eventually followed by two sequels, also by North, Romeo and/or Juliet and William Shakespeare Punches a Friggin' Shark and/or Other Stories.