Appropriating Shakespeare : a cultural history of Pyramus and Thisbe / Louise Geddes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geddes, Louise, author.

Series:

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpreration.

Thisbe (Legendary character) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe argues that the vibrant, transformative history of Shakespeare's play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream across four centuries allows us to see the way in which Shakespeare is used to both create and critique emergent cultural trends.

Contents:

Introduction: "You may do it extempore"

Performance as appropriation: Bottom, celebrity, and the early modern clown

"The taste of the present times": challenging parody in the eighteenth century

"I have a passion for good prose": transmedial Shakespeare in the nineteenth century

"Know that I, one Ringo the drummer am": mass media and the authenticity of subculture

As we like it: Pyramus and Thisbe in the twenty-first century

Epilogue: "It must be your imagination, then".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 6, 2017).

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ISBN:

1-68393-798-8

OCLC:

978351043