Popular Shakespeare

Personal Narrative 1. Ambiguous Applause

1. Popular Shakespeares
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 2. Stand-up Shakespeare

2. Text and Metatext: Shakespeare and Anachronism
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 3. Jeffrey Archer: The One that Got Away

3. ‘A Play Extempore’: Interpolation, Improvisation, and Unofficial Speech
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 4. A Bit Sexist

4. ‘It’s like a Shakespeare play!’: Parodic Appropriations of Shakespeare
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 5. Blasphemy

5. Shakespeare’s Popular Audience: Reconstructions and Deconstructions
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 6. Alternative Endings

6. Shakespeare, Space, and the ‘Popular’
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 7. ‘It’s the famous bit!’: Fragments

7. Shakespearean ‘Samples’
Stephen Purcell

Personal Narrative 8. Rough Magic

8. Rough Magic
Stephen Purcell

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Environment, general, Theatre History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts