1st Edition
Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults
Introduction
1. The Australian Marketplace: Australian Authorship, Shakespearean Stories and Young Readers
Navigating the Marketplace of Australian Adaptations
Shakespearean Currency in the Australian Marketplace
The Three Categories of Australian Shakespearean Adaptations
Adaptations as Historical Fictions
Adaptations Set in Contemporary Australian Contexts
Hybrid Settings: Texts Set in Contemporary Australia and the World of the Shakespeare Play
Paratextual Elements
2. Meeting Shakespeare in the Child’s Space: A Question of Subjectification and Socialisation
School and Classroom Spaces
Educational Forms in Australian Adaptations
The Classroom beyond its Four Walls
Putting on Shakespeare: The Politics of the School Stage
Dreams and Imaginary Spaces
3. The Bodies He Wrote: (Re)Casting Gendered Identities
Shakespeare’s Men as Contemporary Boys
Rewriting Shakespeare’s Girls
Old Bodies Made New: Contemporary Adaptations and the Question of Inclusivity
4. Australian Adaptations on the World Stage: Greenberg, Masson and French
Theorising the International Marketplace
Strategies and Textualities
Picture Books and Graphic Novels
Fictionalising Shakespeare as Character
Shakespearean Adaptation as Historiographic Metafiction
Conclusion
Biography
Michael Marokakis is currently the Head of English at Newington College in Sydney, Australia. In 2020, he received his PhD from The University of Sydney for his research on Shakespearean adaptations. During his completion of his BA Dip Ed (Hons) at Macquarie University, he was awarded the HW Piper Memorial Prize and the Elizabeth M Liggins Prize, both for excellence in the English Honours program. Dr Marokakis is a New South Wales Higher School Certificate marker for English Extension 2 and has presented at conferences, including the British Shakespeare Association Conference in 2016 and the AULLA Conference in 2013. He was also a sessional lecturer at the University of Sydney in the Masters of Education English Curriculum course in 2018.
