Shaping Shakespeare, Reflecting History: Adaptations of Othello for Children in 1990s Britain.
In this article, two 1990s British adaptations of Shakespeare's Othello for children are studied with the primary critical lens of New Historicism. This analysis concerns itself with the cultural resonances adaptors pass to their readers and how those traces shape the Shakespearean texts they adapt....
| Publicado en: | Pennsylvania Literary Journal (2151-3066) Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 81 - 114 |
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