While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, which considers ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare.
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The year is 1644, almost thirty years after Shakespeare's death, and the Civil War is well under way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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King Lear, Sir Toby, Twelfth Night, Poor Tom, The Winter's Tale, Corpus Christi, May Day, Richard Johnson, King Arthur, Prince Hal, Dun Cow, Robert Armin, Samuel Johnson, Dover Wilson, Prince Hamlet, Bevis of Hampton, King Hamlet, Black Knight, Love's Labour's Lost, Nine Worthies, Chevy Chase, Middle Ages, Lord of Misrule, Julius Caesar, Richard Tarlton Browse Sample Pages:
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The year is 1644, almost thirty years after Shakespeare's death, and the Civil War is well under way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
popular festivity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Lear, Sir Toby, Twelfth Night, Poor Tom, The Winter's Tale, Corpus Christi, May Day, Richard Johnson, King Arthur, Prince Hal, Dun Cow, Robert Armin, Samuel Johnson, Dover Wilson, Prince Hamlet, Bevis of Hampton, King Hamlet, Black Knight, Love's Labour's Lost, Nine Worthies, Chevy Chase, Middle Ages, Lord of Misrule, Julius Caesar, Richard Tarlton Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604 (Oxford English Monographs) by Beatrice Groves on page 36, and Back Matter
- Shakespeare, Memory and Performance by Peter Holland on page 35
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