Geddes, Louise. Appropriating Shakespeare : a cultural history of Pyramus and Thisbe

Folger bibliographic ID: 351850
Folger call number: PR2827 .G44 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500434

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction: "You may do it extempore" -- Performance as appropriation: Bottom, celebrity, and the early modern clown -- "The taste of the present times": challenging parody in the eighteenth century -- "I have a passion for good prose": transmedial Shakespeare in the nineteenth century -- "Know that I, one Ringo the drummer am": mass media and the authenticity of subculture -- As we like it: Pyramus and Thisbe in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue: "It must be your imagination, then"

Extended title: Appropriating Shakespeare : a cultural history of Pyramus and Thisbe / Louise Geddes

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream Pyramus (Legendary character) in literature Thisbe (Legendary character) in literature

author: Geddes, Louise