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Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures

Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Literary CriticismActing & AuditioningTheater History

ISBN10: 0367407698
ISBN13: 9780367407698
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 30 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic relationship since the final decade of the sixteenth century, through which each entity has contributed to the vitality and adaptability of the other.

In five chapters, Jennifer Holl explores the early modern culture of theatrical celebrity and its resonances in print and performance, especially in Shakespeare's interrogations of this emerging phenomenon in sonnets and histories, before moving on to examine the ways that shifting cultures of stage, film, and digital celebrity have perpetually recreated the Shakespeare, or even the #shakespeare, with whom audiences continue to interact.

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