Shakespeare in Children's Literature

Gender and Cultural Capital

• Author(s): Erica Hateley,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 218
• ISBN_10: 0415888883
  ISBN_13: 9780415888882
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / Shakespeare , Literary Collections / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare ,

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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.