"I think this ending is much better." Two Recent Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet for Younger Audiences

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"I think this ending is much better." Two Recent Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet for Younger Audiences

Original language description

The chapter discusses El Sueno de una noche de San Juan (2005) and Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), two recent adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet for young children. The text focuses on the way in which the films, although both being rather ?loose? versions of the original stories, present Shakespeare to their audiences, for many of them for the first time. Special attention is paid to the films' openly admitted play with intertextuality, the delineation of the female characters, which seem to be made to be easier to identify with for contemporary child audiences, and the film's treatment of some traditionally taboo themes and topics, namely sex and death.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Read on Screen : Film Adaptations of Literature in English

ISBN

9788087956113

Number of pages of the result

23

Pages from-to

77-99

Number of pages of the book

158

Publisher name

Metropolitan University Prague Press

Place of publication

Prague

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