Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367514150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Natália Pikli

Opis

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory and iconography.

Spis treści

List of figures;  Acknowledgements;  Note on texts;  Introduction;  1. The hobby-horse and the early modern morris dance;  2. Living nostalgia and the cluster of allusions around 1600;  3. Gender, prejudice, and popular dramatic medleys;  4. The hobby-horse in university plays and on politicized public stages;  5. Hobby-horses in cheap print and iconography (1610s–1635);  Appendix;  Index

O autorze

Natália Pikli is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and was Guest Lecturer at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts.