Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture: Arden Critical Companion
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture: Arden Critical Companion
By (Author) Neil Rhodes
Edited by Stuart Gillespie
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Arden Shakespeare
2nd March 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
822.33
Physical Properties
Hardback
271
Width 134mm, Height 204mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
Stuart Gillespie is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, and editor of the journal Translation and Literature.
