"Romeo at the Girls' School: Fantasy of the Girls' Queer Teen Adaptation of Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm6/
Author:
	Jeon, Ja Young.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Adaptation 15, no. 3 (2022): 381–401.
DOI:
	10.1093/adaptation/apac008
Annotation:
	Employs transnational approach to studying cross-gender casting and "queer fascination" with women's contemporary performance Shakespeare’s male roles. Considers case study of Jungmin Ahn's South Korean film, Fantasy of the Girls (2018), which adapts Romeo and Juliet to setting of South Korean all-girls school. Investigates South Korean cultural practice of iban, wherein cross-dressing functions as means of identity production, with particular focus on casting of Romeo. English summary, 381.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Ahn, Fantasy of the Girls 
Persons:
	Ahn, Jungmin
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Romeo and Juliet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Translations and Adaptations
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm6