The Narrator as Mediator and Explicator in Victorian and Edwardian Retellings of Shakespeare for Children

Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was the first English attempt to mediate and remediate Shakespeare in fictional form for children, a form which relied on a narrator who often appropriates the characters’ words as their own and intrudes with comments and interpretations, so that...

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Main Author: Laura Tosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2020-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/8088