The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: An Age for All Time....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Henry’s Desperate Housewives: The Tudors, the Politics of Historiography, and the Beautiful Body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers....Pages 25-42
The Secret Life of Elizabeth I....Pages 43-54
Where the Maps End: Elizabeth: The Golden Age of Simulacra....Pages 55-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Looking Up to the Groundlings: Representing the Renaissance Audience in Contemporary Fiction and Film....Pages 75-87
London’s Burning: Remembering Guy Fawkes and Seventeenth-Century Conflict in V for Vendetta....Pages 89-102
Reading the Early Modern Witch: Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 103-114
“Sportful Combat” Gets Medieval: The Representation of Historical Violence at Renaissance Fairs....Pages 115-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the Recovery of the “Renaissance” Voice: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew....Pages 129-141
God Save the Queene: Sex Pistols, Shakespeare, and Punk [Anti-]History....Pages 143-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Jacques Rivette and Film Adaptation as “Dérive-ation”: Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger’s Tragedy in Noiroit....Pages 167-186
Alex Cox’s Revenger’s Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology....Pages 187-197
Forget Film: Speculations on Shakespearean Entertainment Value....Pages 199-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-232