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Title:
"Romeo and Juliet: The Deconstruction of Romance, or a 'Prefab Story.'"
Author:
Mišterová, Ivona.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Annotation:

Reconsiders the nature of dramatic adaptations by examining Anna Petrzelková's 2011 Romeo and Juliet, performed at Pilsen's International Festival Theatre, with particular attention to her allusions to Czech culture. English summary, 279.

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"Shakespeare for Girls: Victorian versus Contemporary Prose Versions of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice"
Author:
Tosi, Laura.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 9–26.
Annotation:

Compares contemporary novels based on Shakespearean texts to Victorian appropriations of Hamlet and Merchant of Venice meant specifically for young female readers. Argues that the stylistic approaches of these Victorian adaptions still mediate how females culturally relate to Shakespeare.

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"Shylock's Daughter (Shylocks Tochter)--Nathan and his Children (Nathan und seine Kinder): Mirjam Pressler's Adaptations of European Classics for Young Adult Readers"
Author:
Mikota, Jana.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 27–42.
Annotation:

Analyzes the ways in which Mirjam Pressler emphasizes Jewish subtexts in her German adaption of Merchant of Venice, Shylocks Tochter (q.v.).

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"Shakespeare in Children's Literature; Two Approaches: Susan Cooper's King of Shadows and Tad Williams' Caliban's Hour"
Author:
Oppermann, Eva.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 43–58.
Annotation:

Compares Tad Williams's adaptation of Tempest in Caliban's Hour (q.v.) to Susan Cooper's adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream in King of Shadows (q.v.).

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Title:
"Shakespeare for Beginners: The Animated Tales from Shakespeare and the Case Study of Julius Caesar"
Author:
Pennacchia, Maddalena.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 59–76.
Annotation:

Argues that there are subversive undertones in director Yuri Kulakov's 1994 episode Julius Caesar from Animated Tales from Shakespeare (q.v.), a series which abridged Shakespearean plays into cartoon segments for young audiences.

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Title:
"Adapting and Parodying Shakespeare for Young Adults: John Marsden's Hamlet and Andy Griffiths' Just Macbeth!"
Author:
MacLeod, Mark.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 77–94.
Annotation:

Demonstrates how John Marsden's novel Hamlet and Andy Griffiths's children's play Just Macbeth! (both q.v.) reaffirm Shakespeare's canonical status in response to Australian debates from 1996-2007 on Shakespeare's place in the Australian educational system.

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Title:
"Shakespeare Comic Books: Visualizing the Bard for a Young Audience"
Author:
Muller, Anja.
Type:
Book Chapter
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Plastow, Shakespeare in and out of Africa, 95–112.
Annotation:

Examines four comic book adaptions of Macbeth--including Marcia William's Macbeth (q.v.), Classical Comics' Macbeth (by John McDonald), Adam Sexton, Eve Grandt, and Candice Chow's Manga Macbeth (q.v.), and Richard Appignanesi's Manga Shakespeare Macbeth--to demonstrate how comics can effectively or unsuccessfully mediate the play's inherent violence for young readers.

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Title:
"Behind the Happily-Ever-After: Shakespeare's Use of Fairy Tales and All's Well That Ends Well"
Author:
Rawnsley, Ciara.
Type:
Journal Article
Year:
2013
Publication Information:
Journal of Early Modern Studies 2 (2013): 141–58. (http://www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems)
Annotation:

Demonstrates how the darker aspects of fairy tales serve as sources in All's Well that Ends Well, and uses this approach to the play to gain insight to its "'unfortunate' reputation." English summary, 141.

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