"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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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| 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. |