Mary Ellen Lamb

The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By analyzing appropriations of fairies, old wives, and mummers, this project explores the conflicted entanglements of early moderns leaving, or attempting to leave, a once-shared common culture behind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415477437
• ISBN-10: 0415477433
• Artikelnr.: 23819047

Autorenporträt

Mary Ellen Lamb

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Producing Popular Cultures Part 1: Fairies, Old Wives
Tales, and Hobbyhorses: Rising to (In)visibility 2. Taken by the Fairies 3.
Old Wives' Tales 4. Hobbyhorses and Fellow Travellers Part 2: William
Shakespeare 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Breeching the Binary 6. Merry
Wives of Windsor: Domestic Nationalism and the Refuse of the Realm Part 3:
Edmund Spenser 7. The Faerie Queene: Vanishing Fairies and Dissolving
Courtiers Part 4: Ben Jonson 8. Oberon, The Fairy Prince (1611) and The
Great Fairy Caper; The Sad Shepherd (c. 1637) and the Topography of the
Devil's Arse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index