1st Edition

Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies

By Ariane M. Balizet Copyright 2020
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

A modern-day  Taming of the Shrew  that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from  Twelfth Night  sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is increasingly becoming the domain of the adolescent girl, and engages the interdisciplinary... Read more

Introduction: A Girls’ Studies Approach to Shakespeare and Adaptation                                                 

The End(s) of Girlhood: Film     

The Big Bad Bard: Television and Small Screens

Time Travelers: Young Adult Fiction

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Girls: Web Series

The Future: Shakespeare and/as Girls’ Studies                  

Biography

Ariane M. Balizet is an Associate Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate in Women and Gender Studies at TCU in Fort Worth, TX. She is the author of Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (Routledge, 2014), and many articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, feminism, girlhood, and popular culture.