The English Renaissance in Popular Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: An Age for All Time

Chapter 2 Henry’s Desperate Housewives: The Tudors , the Politics of Historiography, and the Beautiful Body of Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Chapter 3 The Secret Life of Elizabeth I

Chapter 4 Where the Maps End: Elizabeth: The Golden Age of Simulacra

Chapter 5 Looking Up to the Groundlings: Representing the Renaissance Audience in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Chapter 6 London’s Burning: Remembering Guy Fawkes and Seventeenth-Century Conflict in V for Vendetta

Chapter 7 Reading the Early Modern Witch: Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 8 “Sportful Combat” Gets Medieval: The Representation of Historical Violence at Renaissance Fairs

Chapter 9 The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the Recovery of the “Renaissance” Voice: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew

Chapter 11 Jacques Rivette and Film Adaptation as “Dérive-ation”: Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger’s Tragedy in Noiroit

Chapter 12 Alex Cox’s Revenger’s Tragedy and the Foreclosure of Apocalyptic Teleology

Chapter 13 Forget Film: Speculations on Shakespearean Entertainment Value