Abstract:William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1597) is a play that supposedly focuses on young people, yet, when the play is adapted into the family film format, creators make some rather drastic changes for their young audience, changes that are often belittled by scholars and critics alike, especially when the films end happily. The Lion King II (1998) and Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) are perfect examples of how such adaptations can play with genre and audience in significantly more sophisticated ways than scholars of… Show more
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