Shakespeare Criticism and Performance in Children’s Literature: <em>In Summer Light</em> and <em>Becca Fair and Foul</em>
Keywords:
children's literature, tempest, Shakespeare, In Summer Light, Becca Fair and Foul, essentialism, girlhood
Abstract
In this article, I seek to place Zibby Oneal’s In Summer Light and Diedre Baker’s Becca Fair and Foul in dialogue with the body of texts that adapt Shakespeare’s works into literature for children. In each of these novels, young women interpret and adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Both texts are self-reflexive adaptations; the stories themselves resonate thematically and geographically with The Tempest, and yet both are overtly conscious of the process and politics of adaptation containing, as they do, characters who interpret and critique Shakespeare’s text.
Published
2020-12-10
How to Cite
Smith, P. (2020). Shakespeare Criticism and Performance in Children’s Literature: <em>In Summer Light</em> and <em>Becca Fair and Foul</em>. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 12(2), 103-128. Retrieved from http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/551
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