Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “You may do it extempore”
1 Performance as Appropriation: Bottom, Celebrity, and the Early Modern Clown
2 “The Taste of the Present Times”: Challenging Parody in the Eighteenth Century
3 “I have a passion for good prose”: Transmedial Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century
4 “Know that I, one Ringo the Drummer Am”: Mass Media and the Authenticity of Subculture
5 As We Like It: Transcultural Shakespeares in the Twenty-first Century
Epilogue: “It must be your imagination, then”
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Louise Geddes is assistant professor of English at Adelphi University.