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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5837
dc.contributor.author	Tosi Laura
dc.title	“Antonio, il mercante della nostra storia”: Adapting The Merchant of Venice for Italian Children
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay discusses the challenges of adapting Shakespeare’s play in narrative form for young readers. It cites the history of such adaptation, thinking about the ‘set of instructions’ authors have provided child readers to respond to the problematic elements of the play (usury, religious and personal prejudice, mercenary marriages, homosexual attraction, cuckoldry). It tracks Tosi’s experience of translating/adapting the play and examines the narrative and ideological choices she made in her illustrated version (2015). The power of this story for children, Tosi argues, lies in its potential to ask questions relevant to their lives today.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-06-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-504-9/antonio-il-mercante-della-nostra-storia-adapting-t/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2/011
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-504-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-503-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Adaptation
dc.subject	Adaptation
dc.subject	Charles and Mary Lamb
dc.subject	Charles and Mary Lamb
dc.subject	Children’s literature
dc.subject	Children’s literature
dc.subject	Lewis Carroll
dc.subject	Lewis Carroll
dc.subject	Narrativization
dc.subject	Narrativization
dc.subject	Portia
dc.subject	Portia
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	Shylock
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice
dc.subject	The Merchant of Venice
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Venice
dc.subject	Venice

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“Antonio, il mercante della nostra storia”: Adapting The Merchant of Venice for Italian Children

Laura Tosi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This essay discusses the challenges of adapting Shakespeare’s play in narrative form for young readers. It cites the history of such adaptation, thinking about the ‘set of instructions’ authors have provided child readers to respond to the problematic elements of the play (usury, religious and personal prejudice, mercenary marriages, homosexual attraction, cuckoldry). It tracks Tosi’s experience of translating/adapting the play and examines the narrative and ideological choices she made in her illustrated version (2015). The power of this story for children, Tosi argues, lies in its potential to ask questions relevant to their lives today.

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10 Giugno 2021

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978-88-6969-504-9

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978-88-6969-503-2

Keywords: Lewis Carroll • Portia • Charles and Mary Lamb • Venice • Children’s literature • Narrativization • Shylock • Translation • Adaptation • The Merchant of Venice

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