Popular Shakespeare
Popular Shakespeare

Author: S. Purcell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0230234224

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In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. A vivid account of Shakespeare in performance since the 1990s, this book examines what 'Shakespeare' means to us today.

Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture
Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture

Author: Douglas Lanier

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9780198187066

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Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children's books, kitsch, and advertising. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in twentieth-century popular culture, amd argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.

What's So Special About Shakespeare?
What's So Special About Shakespeare?

Author: Michael Rosen

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0763699950

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Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Author: Michael A. Anderegg

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780231112291

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Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences, drawing on his knowledge of the abundant, lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century America. Welles's three film adaptations of Shakespeare, Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight, are examined.

Shakespeare and Popular Voice
Shakespeare and Popular Voice

Author: Annabel Patterson

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1991-01-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780631168737

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In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy.