The English Renaissance in popular culture : an age for all time
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The English Renaissance in popular culture : an age for all time
（Reproducing Shakespeare : new studies in adaptation and appropriation）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- G.M.C.Semenza PART I: RENAISSANCE ICONS Desperate Housewives: The Tudors , the Politics of Historiography and the Beautiful Body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- R.Wray The Secret Life of Elizabeth I
- A. L. Eastwood Where Maps End: Elizabeth: The Golden Age of Simulacra
- C.Lehmann PART II: RENAISSANCE FANTASIES Looking Up to the Groundlings in Contemporary Historical Fiction
- A.Rodgers London's Burning: Remembering Guy Fawkes in V for Vendetta
- M.Croteau Reading the Early Modern Witch in Horror Films of the 1960s and 70s
- D.Willis Sportful Combat Gets Medieval: The Representation of Historical Violence at Renaissance Fairs
- K.J.Wetmore, Jr. PART III: RENAISSANCE SOUNDS The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the 'Recovery' of the Renaissance Voice: Sam Taylor's The Taming of the Shrew
- D.Cartmell God Save the Queene: Sex Pistols, Shakespeare, and Punk [Anti-] History
- G.M.C.Semenza Part IV: RENAISSANCE CINEMA Jacques Rivette's Film Adaptation as 'Derive-ation': Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger's Tragedy in Noroit
- R. Burt Alex Cox's Revenger's Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology
- J. Keller Forget Film: Speculations on Shakespearean Entertainment Value
- D.Hedrick
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