Seth and his friends help the good nipsies and receive a reward, but Seth wonders how to tell his grandparents about the corrupted nipsies, without revealing he disobeyed them.įamily friends Tanu and Warren arrive at Fablehaven after being on missions.

Once the satyrs are inside their land, the nipsies ask them for help in the attack from dark nipsies. The satyrs need Seth to help them get past the traps set for intruders so they can obtain some of the gold.

The satyrs take Seth to an area ruled by nipsies - tiny creatures adept at finding gold and jewels. He bribes two satyrs, Doren and Newel, with batteries to be his guides. The third is that MND has been rewritten to suit a specific era and audience.Twelve-year-old Seth disobeys his grandparents’ wishes by exploring Fablehaven off the main paths. The second is that adaptations of MND have been influenced for the past 200 years by education in one way or another, either for pedagogic use or as metatheatrical device, ensuring an increasing variety of adaptations. I argue three points: The first is that the prestige of Shakespeare has been systematically and consistently reinforced in each generation echoing his development from England’s greatest writer to an international icon. This project covers seven time periods (with a chapter devoted to each): 1800 to 1840 (The Beginning) 1850 to 1910 (The Golden Age), 1919 to 1939 (Between the Wars) 1940 to 1959 (Post War Recovery) 1960 to 1979 (Performance Adaptations) 1980 to 1989 (Shakespeare in Schools) and 1990 to 1999 (End of a Millennium). Comparing a wide variety of texts in the context of the time they were written has been neglected, as has the comparison of texts in different eras. This project represents an under-discussed field of Shakespeare studies.

The third is the tendency of treatments to reflect the eras in which they were produced. The second is the growth in the variety of adaptations of Shakespeare for children. The first is the evolution of Shakespeare, in terms of his reputation and literary prestige. From my analysis of forty- two adaptations for children of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, covering a period of almost two hundred years, three distinct trends have emerged. The purpose of my thesis has been to establish the reasons for adapting Shakespeare for children in the modern age and to see if adaptations are influenced by the time they are written.

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