Censoring the Bard: Shakespeare's Content and a Youth Audience

Abstract

udiences unfamiliar with Shakespeare’s work may be surprised to learn that within some of the most highly regarded English-language texts of all time--intermixed with elegant description and poignant soliloquies--there is plenty of teenage rebellion, swearing, bawdy humour, gang violence, murder, and references to the occult through depictions of witches, magic, ghosts, and fairies.