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.