Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture - Arden Critical Companion

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Gillespie, Neil Rhodes
• Assisted by: Stuart Gillespie (Editor), Gillespie Stuart (Editor), Neil Rhodes (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2006
• EAN: 9781904271680
• ISBN: 978-1-904271-68-0
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare; Arden Critical Companions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language and Linguistics