This book explores the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare'. Considering the reduction, translation and referencing of the plays and the man, the volume examines the confluence between Shakepop and rock, rap, graphic novels, teen films and pop psychology.

KEVIN J. WETMORE is Assistant Professor of Theatre, California State University, USA.JENNIFER HULBERT is recipient of the Provost's Young Scholar Grant at Denison University, USAROBERT L. YORK is Assistant Professor of English, Ivy Tech State College, USA.

Nobody Outcrazies Ophelia!: Reducing, Translating, and Referencing Shakespeare for Youth Smells Like Teen Shakespirit, or The Shakespearean Films of Julia Stiles Are You Shakesperienced? Rock and Roll and the Production of Shakespeare Big Willie Style: Hip Hop and Being Down with the Bard "Adolescence, Thy Name is Ophelia": The Ophelia-ization of the Contemporary Teenage Girl This Bard's for You