Shakespearean spaces in Australian literary adaptations for children and young adults / Michael Marokakis.

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

©2023

viii, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

"Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults offers a comprehensive examination of Shakespearean adaptations written by Australian authors for children and Young Adults. The twenty-year period crossing the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries came to represent a diverse and productive era of adapting Shakespeare in Australian literature. As an analysis of Australian and international marketplaces, physical and imaginative spaces and the body as a site of meaning, this book reveals how the texts are ideologically bound to and disseminate Shakespearean cultural capital in contemporary ways. Combining current research in children's literature and Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital deepens the critical awareness of the status of Australian literature while illuminating a corpus of literature underrepresented by the pre-existing concentration on adaptations from other parts of the world. Of particular interest is in how these adaptations merge Shakespearean worlds with the spaces inhabited by young people, such as the classroom, the stage, the imagination and the gendered body. The readership of this book would be academics, researchers and students of children's literature studies and Shakespeare studies, particularly those interested in Shakespearean cultural theory, transnational adaptation and literary appropriation. High school educators and pre-service teachers would also find this book valuable as they look to broaden and strengthen their use of adaptations to engage students in Shakespeare studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Marokakis, Michael. Shakespearean spaces in Australian literary adaptations for children and young adults New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

English

November 11, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.