Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pikli, Natália.

Series:

Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English drama.

Hobbyhorses in literature.

Hobbyhorses in popular culture.

Popular culture--England--History--16th century.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--England--History--17th century.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Sogliardo and the challenge of hobby-horses

A palimpsest of meanings

Cultural memory and popular phenomena

The hobby-horse and the early modern morris dance. Oral culture in transition

The complicated history of the morris and the hobby-horse

Madrigals, songs and images: synthesis and 'living nostalgia'

Living nostalgia and the cluster of allusions around 1600. Oral residue and poetic device: 'For o for o the hobby-horse's forgot'

Hobby-horses in the 'war of the theatres'

Gender, prejudice and popular dramatic medleys. Popular discourses as calling rhymes and social stigmas

Medley dramaturgy and Blurt Master Constable

Fairy queens and cozening queans in The valiant Welshman

The two noble kinsmen and the madwoman in the morris

The hobby-horse in university plays and on politicized public stages. Corrupting fantasy at the university : Ignoramus and Technogamia

The winter's tale and Bartholomew Fair : from criticism to scepticism

Politicized hobby-horses and morris dances : Women pleased and The witch of Edmonton

Hobby-horses in cheap print and iconography (1610s-1635). Hobby-horses and emblematic thinking

John Taylor : the sculler and the hobby-horse

George Wither and versified hobby-horses.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-00-305423-4

1-003-05423-4

1-000-43161-4

9781003054238

OCLC:

1264233731