Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Stephen Hamrick

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Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-19
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt578 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Comedy
Antal sidor346
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030339579

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Professor Stephen Hamrick, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA, teaches British literature, religion and literature, speculative literatures, history, and writing. In addition to work on the English Reformations and Tottel’s Miscellany, Hamrick has published on George Gascoigne and Queen Elizabeth, Mary Tudor, and Lodowick Lloyd. He has edited two collections, George Gascoigne (2008) and Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes in Context (2013). He is the author of The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558-1582 (2009).

Introduction.- Section One: Morecambe & Wise Past and Present.- Chapter 1 - Transferring Variety to Television.- Chapter 2 - The Shrine of Morecambe & Wise.- Section Two: Morecambe & Wise and Shakespeare.- Chapter 3 - Shakespop.- Chapter 4 - Embodying the Bard.- Chapter 5 - At War with the Boys.- Chapter 6 - Hamlets (formerly the conclusion).- Section Three: Morecambe & Wise and Sexuality.- Chapter 7 - Impersonating Men.- Chapter 8 - Cross-Dressed Comedy.- Chapter 9 - In Bed with a Will.- Chapter 10 - Queer Shakespeare.- Conclusion.