Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl five-book series (2013-2017) offers young readers a simple, yet gripping family saga, brilliantly penned in a rather sophisticated literary style and copiously illustrated by the author himself. The first three books in the series (Goth Girl…
ADAPTING SHAKESPEARE – CONVERTING SHYLOCK IN MICHAEL RADFORD’S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
This article aims to explore the extension and evolution of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice through Michael Radford’s 2004 cinematic adaptation. By investigating the concept of adaptation and the significance of intertextuality, Shakespeare’s source text is considered alongside Radford’s twenty-first…