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[lisajane_r@hotmail.com](lisajane_r@hotmail.com)  \nABSTRACT. This paper explores how target-audience expectations and generic limitations on modern, mass-culture adaptations of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night mould the characterization of his officious steward Malvolio, and dictate the degree of centrality that his subplot holds in each different version. A trans-generic application of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan’s work on characterization will expose how the character of Malvolio is constructed and presented, first in the original play and then in three modern adaptations of Twelfth Night into different popular genres. The works selected for contrastive analysis with the original play each represent different generic fields found on today’s mass-culture market – romance fiction, teen cinema and the web-comic. Respectively, they are: The Madness of Love, a contemporary romance novel by Katharine Davies, published in 2005; She’s the Man, a Hollywood teen film directed by Andy Fickman in 2006; and a web-comic retelling of Twelfth Night by Mya Lixian Gosling, which was published on her website Good Tickle-Brain Shakespeare in 2014.  \nKeywords: Malvolio, characterization, popular culture, adaptations, audience expectation, Twelfth Night.  \n299  \nJournal of English Studies, vol. 17 (2019) 299-316  \nMOLDEANDO A MALVOLIO EN LAS ADAPTACIONES MODERNAS DE  \nNOCHE DE REYES  \nRESUMEN. Este trabajo explora cómo las expectativas del público y las limitaciones genéricas de las adaptaciones modernas de la obra shakesperiana Noche de Reyes, en el marco de la cultura de masas, moldean la caracterización del oficiososirviente Malvolio, y dictan el grado de centralidad del argumento secundario que protagoniza en cada versión. La aplicación trans-genérica de la teoría de Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan sobre caracterización mostrará cómo se construye y presenta el personaje de Malvolio, tanto en la obra original, como en las tres adaptaciones modernas a diferentes géneros populares. Cada una de las tres obras seleccionadas para este análisis contrastivo con la obra original representa un campo genérico diferente, todas típicas del mercado de la cultura de masas de hoy en día –ficción romántica, cine para adolescentes y el web-comic. Respectivamente, son: The Madness of Love, una novela romántica contemporánea escrita por Katharine Davies, y publicada en 2005; She’s the Man, una película hollywoodiense para adolescentes, dirigidaporAndy Fickman en 2006; y un web-comic que reelaborala historia de Noche de Reyes, creado por Mya Lixian Gosling, y publicado en supágina web Good Tickle-Brain Shakespeare en 2014.  \nPalabras clave: Malvolio, caracterización, cultura popular, adaptaciones, expectativa del público, Twelfth Night.  \nReceived 15 February 2018 Revised version accepted 29 April 2019  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nJust over four hundred years separate us from the first performances of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and there is no question that our collective psyche has changed enormously in that time. Our social structures as well as individual notions of what one can expect from life bear little relation to those of Elizabethan times, and this shift influences how modern adaptations of the play deal with the character and subplot of the steward Malvolio in order to meet the expectations of their modern audiences and the requirements of their chosen genre. In my exploration of this idea, I first provide a brief analysis of the Shakespearean version of the character and subplot, before discussing three different adaptations of the play – a contemporary romance novel, The Madness of Love (Davies 2005); a Hollywood teen film She’s the Man (Fickman 2006); and a web-comic retelling of the play found on Good Tickle-Brain Shakespeare (Gosling 2017) – to reveal the repercussions that audience expectations and generic conventions have on the construction of Malvolio","cbCain3VBgK4gNFu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain3VBgK4gNFu","pdf",316672,28,"English","# Introduction\n## Moulding the Original Malvolio","[{\"question\":\"How does the paper explain the character of Malvolio across different adaptations?\",\"answer\":\"It applies a trans-generic characterization framework based on Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan to show how Malvolio is constructed through direct definition and indirect presentation, then compared across the original play and three modern adaptations.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do audience expectations and genre conventions play in the adaptations?\",\"answer\":\"The analysis argues that expectations and generic limits influence how each adaptation reshapes Malvolio and determines the centrality of his subplot in the target cultural context.\"},{\"question\":\"Which three modern works are compared with Twelfth Night?\",\"answer\":\"The paper contrasts Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with Katharine Davies’ contemporary romance novel The Madness of Love (2005), Andy Fickman’s Hollywood teen film She’s the Man (2006), and Mya Lixian Gosling’s web-comic retelling published on Good Tickle-Brain Shakespeare (2014).\"}]","MOULDING MALVOLIO INTO MODERN ADAPTATIONS OF TWELFTH NIGHT | PDF",71]