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Shakespeare and Youth Culture This page intentionally left blank Shakespeare and Youth Culture Jennifer Hulbert,Kevin J.Wetmore,Jr., and Robert L.York SHAKESPEAREANDYOUTHCULTURE Copyright © Jennifer Hulbert,Kevin J.Wetmore,Jr.,and Robert L.York,2006. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-7284-2 All rights reserved. First published in hardcover in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN®in the United States—a division of St.Martin’s Press LLC,175 Fifth Avenue, New York,NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK,Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan,a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England,company number 785998,of Houndmills, Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave®and Macmillan®are registered trademarks in the United States,the United Kingdom,Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-62307-1 ISBN 978-0-230-10524-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230105249 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India. First PALGRAVE MACMILLAN paperback edition:February 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to Jason Hulbert Eleanor Maher Wetmore and Sherry Bevins Darrell,for her ongoing encouragement, and Lisa,for her undying love and support This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix About the Authors xi “Dude, Where’s My Bard?” 1 Reducing, Translating, and Referencing Shakespeare for Youth: An Introduction 1. “Great Reckonings in Little Rooms,” or Children’s Playtime: Shakespeare and Performing Object Theatre of Toys 43 Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 2. “Smells Like Teen Shakespirit” Or, the Shakespearean Films of Julia Stiles 57 Robert L. York 3. “Are You Shakespearienced?” Rock Music and the Production of Shakespeare 117 Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 4. “Big Willie Style” Staging Hip-Hop Shakespeare and Being Down with the Bard 147 Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 5. “The Amazing Adventures of Superbard”: Shakespeare in Comics and Graphic Novels 171 Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 6. “Adolescence, Thy Name is Ophelia!”: The Ophelia-ization of the Contemporary Teenage Girl 199 Jennifer Hulbert viii Contents This Bard’s for You(th), or “Get over Yourself, 221 Ophelia!”: A Conclusion that Leaves Things Open for a Sequel Works Cited 231 Index 243 Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the editorial staff at Palgrave. We also thank the anonymous readers for the excellent suggestions on how to shape and strengthen the volume. Jennifer Hulbert would like to thank Rob Gander in the Denison University Theatre Department for his guidance and sarcasm. She also extends her thanks to Kevin for pretty much the same thing. Thanks to Judy Hulbert and Jay Hulbert for putting up with her now and in her “Ophelia” years. Denison University also provided financial and academic support for this research, for which she is also grateful. Kevin Wetmore would like to thank Matt Walker and the Troubadour Theatre Company of Santa Monica, the faculty and staff of the Department of Theatre and the College of Arts, Media and Communication at California State University, Northridge for their support (in all its forms), Hy Bender, and David Pellegrini. Thanks also to Susan Kattwinkel and Matthew Philips and the participants and board members of the 2003 Southwestern Theatre Conference Theatre Symposium for their insights and feedback on chapter 3. Similarly, thanks are due to the participants in the 2002 American Society for Theatre Research seminar on theatre and expropriation for their feed- back on an earlier version of chapter 4: Sarah Bay-Cheng, Mark Cosdan, David A. Crespy, Mark Gordon, Norman Hart, Victor Holtcamp, Chris Olson, and Doug Rossom. Thanks as well to Denison University and Loyola Marymount University. Last but not the least, he would like to thank his wife, Maura Chwastyk for her patience, insights, and support. Robert York would like to thank Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Southern Indiana Campus and his students.
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