Table of Contents

List of Figures

Series Editor’s Foreword

Introduction

Chapter One: Romantic Roots: Constructing the Child as Reader, and Shakespeare as Author

Chapter Two: "Author(is)ing the Child: Shakespeare as Character"

Chapter Three: ‘Be These Juggling Fiends No More Believed’: Macbeth, Gender, and Subversion

Chapter Four: Puck vs. Hermia: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter Five: ‘This Island’s Mine’: The Tempest, Gender, and Authority / Autonomy

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erica Hateley teaches children’s and adolescent literature at Kansas State University. She has published articles about Shakespeare for children in several journals, and in the recent collection of essays To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood edited by Laurie Ousley.

Reviews

"This is a provocative and timely book that needs to be read, interrogated, and discussed."--Kathryn Graham, Virginia Tech