The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

　　This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms thatShakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of fourcenturies, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace tothe age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance,music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prosefiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare ispopularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queriesthe factors that determine the definitions of and boundariesbetween the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and theauthorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous andthe inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays andpoems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have beeninterpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed intoother media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers,performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.