Title: Appropriating Shakespeare : a cultural history of Pyramus and Thisbe /
Authors: Geddes, Louise,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Shakespeare, William,; Pyramus (Legendary character) in literature.; Thisbe (Legendary character) in literature.
Contents: Introduction: "You may do it extempore" -- Performance as appropriation: Bottom, celebrity, and the early modern clown -- "The taste of the present times": challenging parody in the eighteenth century -- "I have a passion for good prose": transmedial Shakespeare in the nineteenth century -- "Know that I, one Ringo the drummer am": mass media and the authenticity of subculture -- As we like it: Pyramus and Thisbe in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue: "It must be your imagination, then".