![]() ![]() Hutcheon continues that ‘it seems more or less acceptable to adapt Romeo and Juliet into a respected high art form, like an opera or a ballet, but not to make it into a movie.’ However it has been suggested that rather than undermining classical works, media adaptations can enhance them, pulling them down from reverential pedestals and making them palatable to the masses. ![]() As Linda Hutcheon asserts in A Theory of Adaptation (2006), ‘if an adaptation is perceived as “lowering” a story (according to some imagined hierarchy of medium or genre) response is likely to be negative.’ This leads people to assume that authors and texts such as Shakespeare are on a classical pedestal and cannot be touched or reproduced, unless it is by a higher art form. The assumption is that they not only simplify the source, but that they also undermine it and its place in the classical canon. Film adaptations have long been considered as involving a lowering of the status of the original venerated book or play. ![]()
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