The chapter highlights the cultural work of Shakespeare adaptations for an audience that is defined by its gender and age. The author does not only perceive Shakespeare adaptations for young female readers as instruments of indoctrination, but she emphasizes the reader's agency as a determining factor for Victorian, Edwardian and contemporary meddlings with the Bard.

Shakespeare for Girls: Victorian versus Contemporary Prose Versions of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice

TOSI, Laura
2013-01-01

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The chapter highlights the cultural work of Shakespeare adaptations for an audience that is defined by its gender and age. The author does not only perceive Shakespeare adaptations for young female readers as instruments of indoctrination, but she emphasizes the reader's agency as a determining factor for Victorian, Edwardian and contemporary meddlings with the Bard.
2013
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature
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