UID:
almahu_9949385225002882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages).
ISBN:
9781003054238
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1003054234
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1000431614
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9781000431636
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1000431630
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9781000431612
Series Statement:
Studies in performance and early modern drama
Content:
"This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography"--
Note:
Introduction. Sogliardo and the challenge of hobby-horses -- A palimpsest of meanings -- Cultural memory and popular phenomena -- The hobby-horse and the early modern morris dance. Oral culture in transition -- The complicated history of the morris and the hobby-horse -- Madrigals, songs and images: synthesis and 'living nostalgia' -- Living nostalgia and the cluster of allusions around 1600. Oral residue and poetic device: 'For o for o the hobby-horse's forgot' -- Hobby-horses in the 'war of the theatres' -- Gender, prejudice and popular dramatic medleys. Popular discourses as calling rhymes and social stigmas -- Medley dramaturgy and Blurt Master Constable -- Fairy queens and cozening queans in The valiant Welshman -- The two noble kinsmen and the madwoman in the morris -- The hobby-horse in university plays and on politicized public stages. Corrupting fantasy at the university : Ignoramus and Technogamia -- The winter's tale and Bartholomew Fair : from criticism to scepticism -- Politicized hobby-horses and morris dances : Women pleased and The witch of Edmonton -- Hobby-horses in cheap print and iconography (1610s-1635). Hobby-horses and emblematic thinking -- John Taylor : the sculler and the hobby-horse -- George Wither and versified hobby-horses.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Pikli, Natália, 1972- Shakespeare's hobby-horse and early modern popular culture Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367514150
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003054238
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