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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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2020-12-01
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Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/8088 |