1st Edition

Shakespeare in Children's Literature Gender and Cultural Capital

By Erica Hateley Copyright 2009
    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    236 Pages
    by Routledge

    Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of "Shakespeare," and the pedagogical aspects of children’s literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.

    List of Figures

    Series Editor’s Foreword

    Introduction

    Chapter One: Romantic Roots: Constructing the Child as Reader, and Shakespeare as Author

    Chapter Two: "Author(is)ing the Child: Shakespeare as Character"

    Chapter Three: ‘Be These Juggling Fiends No More Believed’: Macbeth, Gender, and Subversion

    Chapter Four: Puck vs. Hermia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gender, and Sexuality

    Chapter Five: ‘This Island’s Mine’: The Tempest, Gender, and Authority / Autonomy

    Conclusions

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Erica Hateley teaches children’s and adolescent literature at Kansas State University. She has published articles about Shakespeare for children in several journals, and in the recent collection of essays To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood edited by Laurie Ousley.

    "This is a provocative and timely book that needs to be read, interrogated, and discussed."--Kathryn Graham, Virginia Tech