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Shakespeare for Australian Young Adults

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  • Resources for Further Reading on Shakespearean Adaptations for Young Adults

  • Critical Articles and Books

    Fotheringham, Richard & Rob Pensalfini. 'Anti-Colonial Voices? Non-British Accents and the National Authentication of Shakespeare in Australia in the 1970s'. Australasian Drama Studies, no.50, 2007 (pp.49-65).

    Hateley, Erica.'Shakespearean Girlhoods in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction'. Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, v. 33, 2015.

    ---. Shakespeare in Children's Literature : Gender and Cultural Capital. New York: Routledge, 2009.

    ---. 'De-colonising Shakespeare? Agency and (Masculine) Authority in Gregory Rogers’s The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard'Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, v.19, no.1 (2009), 59-68. 

    ---. 'Shakespeare as National Discourse in Contemporary Children's Literature'Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, v.13, no.1 (2003), pp.11-24.

    MacLeod, Mark. 'Adapting and Parodying Shakespeare for Young Adults: John Marsden's Hamlet' and Andy Griffiths' Just Macbeth!', in A. Mueller (ed.) Adapting Canonical Texts for Children's Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 (pp.77-93).

  • Discussion Pieces, Blog Posts and Websites

    This section includes articles about international narratives.

    Kossew, Sue. 'The Case for Gail Jones' Sorry'The Conversation, July 22 (2014).

    Seales, Julia. '13 Shakespeare-inspired Young Adult Novels'. Bustle.com, (2016).

  • Articles on Teaching with Shakespeare

    Hateley, Erica. 'Shakespeare is Child's Play! Picture Books as Theatre in Primary Classrooms'Practically Primary, v.16, no.2 (2011).

  • Additional Searches on Shakespeare in AustLit

    There are many ways to search for retellings of Shakespeare's stories in AustLit, including keyword searches such as 'Othello' or an advanced search for the setting 'Stratford Upon Avon'.

    Find Australian theatre adaptations of Shakespeare: drama | musical theatre

    You can also visit Shakespeare's AustLit record here, or look at records for individual titles, such as The Tempest

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