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....
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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 h
COVER; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture; Chapter One: Shakespeare and the Mystery Plays; Chapter Two: Shakespeare and Popular Festivity; Chapter Three: Shakespeare's Clowns; Chapter Four: Shakespeare and Popular Romance; Chapter Five: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Fiction; Chapter Six: Shakespeare, Ghosts and Popular Folklore; Chapter Seven: Shakespeare's Sayings; Chapter Eight: Shakespeare and Popular Song
Chapter Nine: Shakespeare's Residuals: The Circulation of Ballads in Cultural MemoryNOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
