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Popular Shakespeare : simulation and subversion on the modern stage / Stephen Purcell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Shakespeare studiesPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: ix, 262 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230577039
  • 0230577032
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR2880.A1 P87 2009
Contents:
Ambiguous applause. Popular Shakespeares -- Stand-up Shakespeare. Text and metatext: Shakespeare and anachronism -- Jeffrey Archer: the one that got away ; 'A play extempore': interpolation, improvisation, and unofficial speech -- A bit sexist. 'It's like a Shakespeare play!': parodic appropriations of Shakespeare -- Blasphemy. Shakespeare's popular audience: reconstructions and deconstructions -- Alternative endings. Shakespeare, space, and the 'popular' -- 'It's the famous bit!': fragments of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespearean 'samples' -- Rough magic.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.

Ambiguous applause. Popular Shakespeares -- Stand-up Shakespeare. Text and metatext: Shakespeare and anachronism -- Jeffrey Archer: the one that got away ; 'A play extempore': interpolation, improvisation, and unofficial speech -- A bit sexist. 'It's like a Shakespeare play!': parodic appropriations of Shakespeare -- Blasphemy. Shakespeare's popular audience: reconstructions and deconstructions -- Alternative endings. Shakespeare, space, and the 'popular' -- 'It's the famous bit!': fragments of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespearean 'samples' -- Rough magic.

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