The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Shaughnessy, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521605806 ISBN 13: 9780521605809

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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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Review:

'... 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

Book Description:

This collection is designed for readers interested in seeing Shakespeare's life and works in the context of popular forms of performance, literature, media, music and art, from their original circumstances of composition to the present day. Essays address topics such as tourism, television serialization and the Shakespearean pop song.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521605806
• ISBN 13: 9780521605809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306