This ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs focuses on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking, and meticulously faithful historical reconstructions. It is also partly an autobiographical account of interactive improvisation, subcultures within the festival framework, delineation between living history and historical elaboration, and new understanding of performer and patron immersion into varying degrees of the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans is an independent scholar who manages a pirate band and performs at Renaissance festivals with her husband and son. She has published a number of articles, including "Marketing Multiple Mythologies of Masculinity: Television Advertising and the National Hockey League" and "Tudor Court Culture". Korol-Evans is the founder and chair of the Festivals and Faires Area of the Popular Culture Association.
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