Shakespeare as National Discourse in Contemporary Children’s Literature

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  • Erica Hately

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no1art1293

Keywords:

William Shakespeare, contemporary children's literature, Australian discourse

Abstract

Accepting Stephens' assertions about some of the cultural functions of children's literature, this paper raises the question of what happens in contemporary children's novels when that which is marked as 'centrally important' to both the child protagonist and reader is Shakespeare. More than that, I wish to examine the cultural complexities that are raised when that child protagonist and often the implied reader is Australian.

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2003-01-01

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“Shakespeare as National Discourse in Contemporary Children’s Literature” (2003) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 13(1), pp. 11–24. doi:10.21153/pecl2003vol13no1art1293.

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