Shakespeare's works are constantly being translated into new contexts a fact which
demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. Shakespeare Translated looks
at the way certain plays - particularly Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Othello and King Lear -
have been recontextualized into films like O and King of Texas or television shows such as
The Gilmore Girls Cheers and Clueless. This book illustrates how Romeo and Juliet is the most
shamelessly appropriated of Shakespeare's scripts for contemporary use because its plot fits so
neatly into the teenage culture that has burgeoned since the late 1950s. Shakespeare Translated
looks at what has happened to Shakespeare for better or - more often - for worse as the new
millennium begins.
