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Shakespeare and Elizabethan popular culture / edited by Stuart Gillespie and Neil Rhodes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2952 .S435 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Arden critical companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- England.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--Popular culture.
- Popular culture--England--History--16th century.
- Popular culture--England--History--17th century.
- England--Civilization--16th century.
- Civilization.
- England--Civilization--17th century.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arden Shakespeare, 2006.
- Summary:
- While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, in considering ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture / Stuart Gillespie, Neil Rhodes 1
- Chapter 1 Shakespeare and the Mystery Plays / Helen Cooper 18
- Chapter 2 Shakespeare and Popular Festivity / Leah S. Marcus 42
- Chapter 3 Shakespeare's Clowns / Alex Davis 67
- Chapter 4 Shakespeare and Popular Romance / Helen Moore 92
- Chapter 5 Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Fiction / David Margolies 112
- Chapter 6 Shakespeare, Ghosts and Popular Folklore / Diane Purkiss 136
- Chapter 7 Shakespeare's Sayings / Neil Rhodes 155
- Chapter 8 Shakespeare and Popular Song / Stuart Gillespie 174
- Chapter 9 Shakespeare's Residuals: The Circulation of Ballads in Cultural Memory / Bruce R. Smith 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 247-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1904271685
- OCLC:
- 68763913
- Publisher Number:
- 9781904271680
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