'… Shakespeare and Popular Culture is a book that makes imperative reading for anyone who's remotely interested in literature, poetry, theatre, drama, the use of language, society at large and William Shakespeare's ever contagious and inexorable influence - upon all of the aforementioned and a whole lot more besides.' David Marx

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
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Preface Robert Shaughnessy; 1. From popular entertainment to literature Diana E. Henderson; 2. Shakespeare abbreviated Peter Holland; 3. Shakespearean stars Barbara Hodgdon; 4. Shakespeare illustrated Stephen Orgel; 5. Shakespeare: myth and biographical fiction Douglas Lanier; 6. Narration and staging in Hamlet and its afternovels Laurie Osborne; 7. Shakespeare serialised: An Age of Kings Emma Smith; 8. Musical Shakespeares: attending to Ophelia, Juliet and Desdemona Stephen M. Buhler; 9. Shakespeare overheard: performances, adaptations and citations on radio Susanne Greenhalgh; 10. Shakespeare on the tourist trail Nicola J. Watson; 11. Performing Shakespeare in digital culture W. B. Worthen; 12. Shakespeare's popular face: from the playbill to the poster Carol Chillington Rutter; Further reading.
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'… Shakespeare and Popular Culture is a book that makes imperative reading for anyone who's remotely interested in literature, poetry, theatre, drama, the use of language, society at large and William Shakespeare's ever contagious and inexorable influence - upon all of the aforementioned and a whole lot more besides.' David Marx
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This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521844291
Publisert
2007-06-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
580 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
306

Biographical note

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the University of Kent.